Nemotron multimodal model for visual reasoning and agentic AI workflows
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) is listed for chat, reasoning workloads and supports a 128K context window.
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| Provider | Model listing | Access | Context | API | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) | Check provider | 128K | OpenAI-style | 200 req/day (free tier) |
| Model | Provider | Context | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) | OpenRouter | 262K | Free tier |
| Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free) | OpenRouter | 262K | Free tier |
| Cohere: North Mini Code (free) | OpenRouter | 256K | Free tier |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) | OpenRouter | 128K | Free tier |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | OpenRouter | 1.0M | Free tier |
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) is tagged for chat in this catalog and works with OpenAI-compatible client libraries.
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) is tagged for reasoning in this catalog and works with OpenAI-compatible client libraries.
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) appears in the free model catalog for OpenRouter, but its current endpoint availability should be confirmed with the provider before use.
The model ID shown in this catalog is nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free.
The listed free tier limit is 200 req/day (free tier). Limits can change per account tier, so confirm against the provider dashboard.
The listed context window is 128K tokens with up to 128K output tokens.
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL is a 12B-parameter multimodal reasoning model available free on OpenRouter. Uses a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture for better throughput and lower latency. Handles text and multi-image document inputs with 128K context. Optimized for optical character recognition (OCR), chart reasoning, and multimodal comprehension. Supports long-form video via Efficient Video Sampling (EVS). Achieves ~74 average across MMMU, MathVista, AI2D, OCRBench, ChartQA, DocVQA, and Video-MME. Open-weights under NVIDIA license. Also available on NVIDIA NIM. OpenAI-compatible. Free tier: 200 RPD.
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