Third-generation enterprise safety classifier trained on 2026 policy guidelines, multi-turn red teaming, and prompt injection defense.
Technical Specifications
- Provider
- NVIDIA
- Category
- open-source
- Release Date
- 2026-04
- Batch API Discount
- 50% off async batch
- Consumer Subscription
- Free / Self-Hosted
- Reasoning Effort Control
- Fixed
- Structured Outputs
- Yes
- Output Modalities
- text
- Official Documentation
- Visit Official Docs ↗
Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance
Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs
- Official API Model ID (SDK String)
- nemotron-3-content-safety
- Supported SDK & API Protocol
- OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
- Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
- Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
- Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
- Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
- Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
- Flat rate ($0.05/1M in) across full 128K window
- Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
- Cached input at $0.01/1M tokens
- Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
- Text-only completion (No GUI action loop)
- MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
- Prompt-based JSON extraction only
- Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
- Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
- Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
- Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
- Multimodal Tokenization Billing
- Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
- Weights Precision & Quantization
- BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
- Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
- 5 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 17 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
- Supported Inference Engines
- vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
- System Card & Safety Framework
- Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
- Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
- 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Nemotron 3 Content Safety Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration
Pay-as-you-go API is cheaper for this volume (saves $16.70/mo vs $20 flat plan).
Break-even point: ~3,030 requests/day equals $20/month.
Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models
Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter
Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.
Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator
Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Nemotron 3 Content Safety:
Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar
- Chatbot Arena Elo
- 1175pts
Strengths
- Class-leading classification throughput (190 tokens/sec) for inline API filtering
- Zero-shot adaptability to custom enterprise compliance taxonomies
- Robust defense against sophisticated multi-turn prompt injection attempts
Limitations & Trade-offs
- Strictly a moderation classifier; cannot generate free-form text or code
- Requires deterministic system framing for score consistency
Editorial Assessment
NVIDIA's flagship production moderation engine for high-traffic enterprise gateways.
Best for: Enterprise AI trust & safety, public chatbot protection, and corporate compliance screening
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Frequently Asked Questions about Nemotron 3 Content Safety
How much does the Nemotron 3 Content Safety API cost per 1M tokens?+
Nemotron 3 Content Safety by NVIDIA is priced at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.1 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.01 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.
Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Nemotron 3 Content Safety pay-as-you-go API?+
A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.
How many words and pages fit in Nemotron 3 Content Safety's context window?+
Nemotron 3 Content Safety features a 128K tokens context window, which equals approximately 96,000 English words or ~256 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 2,048 tokens.
Can I run Nemotron 3 Content Safety locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+
Yes, Nemotron 3 Content Safety (8B) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.
Does NVIDIA train on data sent to the Nemotron 3 Content Safety API, and is commercial use allowed?+
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Open-Weights Research & Commercial License. Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.
How does Nemotron 3 Content Safety perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+
Nemotron 3 Content Safety achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 37/100, scoring N/A% on SWE-bench Verified, N/A% on GPQA Diamond, N/A% on MMLU-Pro, and 1175 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.
What is Nemotron 3 Content Safety best used for?+
Nemotron 3 Content Safety is best suited for: Enterprise AI trust & safety, public chatbot protection, and corporate compliance screening. Assessment: NVIDIA's flagship production moderation engine for high-traffic enterprise gateways.
NVIDIA Family Lineage, Routing Tiers & Upgrade Path
Step down to a lighter sibling for high-volume routing or step up to NVIDIA's flagship reasoning tier:
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
Nemotron VoiceChat
Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B
AI Glossary & Architecture Concepts
View full glossary →Key machine learning concepts and benchmarks relevant to Nemotron 3 Content Safety:
The basic unit of text that a language model processes, typically representing about 3 to 4 English characters or roughly 0.75 words. For example, the sentence "Artificial intelligence is fast" breaks down into about 5 tokens.
A standardized evaluation suite used to objectively measure and rank an AI model's capabilities across specific tasks — such as SWE-bench Verified for software engineering, AIME for competitive math, or MMLU for general knowledge.
The maximum number of tokens a model can consider at once — both the input it reads and the output it writes. A 1,000,000-token context window can hold roughly 750,000 English words in a single request.
A cost and latency optimization where inference providers store pre-computed attention states for repeated prompt prefixes. Reusing cached tokens typically slashes API input costs by 50% to 90% and cuts TTFT substantially.
A GPU memory optimization that stores previously calculated Key and Value attention matrices so the model does not recompute attention for existing tokens at each generation step. KV cache is vital for fast streaming generation and prompt caching.
The neural network architecture introduced in 2017 that powers modern LLMs, using self-attention mechanisms to process all tokens in a sequence concurrently rather than sequentially.
Benchmark scores, token prices, and rate limits evolve rapidly as AI labs release model updates. Always verify current specifications and pricing on the official provider documentation.