Best Local NVIDIA Models
The best local NVIDIA model is Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) (14.9 intelligence) — open weights on Hugging Face, small enough to run on your own hardware. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (7.4) is next.
The best local LLMs — open-weight models small enough to run on your own hardware with Ollama, llama.cpp or vLLM — ranked by intelligence. Frontier-scale open models (400B+) are excluded: downloadable isn't the same as runnable. Every model here is on Hugging Face.
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nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:freeReasoningToolsVision+114.9 intel · Free/M · 256K ctx14.9Intelligence - 2nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3bReasoningToolsJSON7.4 intel · $0.050/M · 262K ctx7.4Intelligence
Frequently asked
What is the best local NVIDIA model?
The best local NVIDIA model is Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) (14.9 intelligence) — open weights on Hugging Face, small enough to run on your own hardware. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (7.4) is next.
What's a good alternative to Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)?
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (7.4) is the closest alternative on this metric. See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
How many NVIDIA models are there?
modelgrep tracks 10 NVIDIA models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free). 2 of them qualify for this ranking.