The closest alternative to Nemotron 3 Super is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B — comparable intelligence (35.9 vs 36.0); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.090/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the closest alternative to Nemotron 3 Super, with an Intelligence Index of 35.9 (Nemotron 3 Super scores 36.0) at $0.260 per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.090 for Nemotron 3 Super, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Nemotron 3 Super — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.