Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.
OpenAI
OpenAI o1 mini, released by OpenAI in September 2024, is a lightweight reasoning model from the o1 family optimized for efficient STEM problem-solving at lower cost and latency. It features a 128K token context window and applies chain-of-thought reasoning specifically tuned for mathematics, science, and coding tasks. o1 mini targets use cases where rapid, cost-efficient reasoning is preferred over the broader capabilities of the full o1 model.
6 months newer

o1 mini
OpenAI
2024-09-12

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA
2025-04-07
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
o1 mini
OpenAI
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
o1 mini
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
o1 mini