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Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B

Revisado por el equipo de investigación de GetInfoUsÚltima revisión: October 2026Política editorial
Razonador de seguridadOfficial Source Verified ↗
38
Intelligence Index

compacto 4B seguridad motor que explains su moderation judgments con auditable razonamiento traces before flagging o allowing queries.

Technical Specifications

Provider
NVIDIA
Category
open-source
Release Date
2026-01
Knowledge Cutoff
November 2025
Architecture
Reasoning-Augmented Safety Classifier
Parameters
4B
Context Window
128K tokens
Max Output
4K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.01 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
No
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
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Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Open-Weights Research & Commercial License
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
nemotron-content-safety-reasoning-4b
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
2 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 9 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
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$4.05$5.25
Monthly Savings: $1.20 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Pay-as-you-go API is cheaper for this volume (saves $15.95/mo vs $20 flat plan).

Break-even point: ~2,469 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B (Active)
$4.05
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$14.51/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (38)Reasoning (38)Knowledge (40)Speed (100)Context (75)Cost Value (94)
Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B2026 Frontier Median
Chatbot Arena Elo
1190pts

Strengths

  • Produces human-interpretable razonamiento justifications para moderation decisions
  • Drastically reduces false positives en nuanced creativo y legal texto screening
  • ligero 4B huella deployable en perimetral nodes o inline API proxies

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • especializado guardrail modelo; cannot serve as un general asistente o code generator
  • Slightly mayor latencia que non-razonamiento classifiers due un explanation generación

Editorial Assessment

el líder abierto seguridad modelo proporcionando transparent, explainable moderation decisions.

Best for: Auditable content moderation, cumplimiento verificación, y alto-stakes empresarial gobernanza

Frequently Asked Questions about Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B

How much does the Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B API cost per 1M tokens?+

Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B by NVIDIA is priced at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 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 Content Safety Reasoning 4B 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 Content Safety Reasoning 4B's context window?+

Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B 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 4,096 tokens.

Can I run Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B (4B) 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 Content Safety Reasoning 4B 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 Content Safety Reasoning 4B perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 38/100, scoring N/A% on SWE-bench Verified, N/A% on GPQA Diamond, N/A% on MMLU-Pro, and 1190 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B best used for?+

Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B is best suited for: Auditable content moderation, cumplimiento verificación, y alto-stakes empresarial gobernanza. Assessment: el líder abierto seguridad modelo proporcionando transparent, explainable moderation decisions.

Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.

Fuentes: NVIDIA AI Governance & Safety Tools (Jan 2026)↗