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Open source alternatives to Nemotron 3

3 open source tools do the job of Nemotron 3. About Nemotron 3

Nemotron 3 homepage
Nemotron 3Free
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash homepage
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashMITCode

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Questions about alternatives to Nemotron 3

What is the best open source alternative to Nemotron 3?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is listed first. Choose DeepSeek V4.1 Flash when you want MIT-licensed weights plus a cheap hosted API; DeepSeek charges $0.30 / $1.20 per million tokens at peak for its 1M-context Flash model.

Is there a free alternative to Nemotron 3?

Yes. The code of all 3 is public under MIT or Apache 2.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

How do I choose between them?

Start from the job you use Nemotron 3 for. Choose Qwen3.6-27B when coding is the main job; Alibaba reports 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified for this single 27B model, which also reads images and video. Choose Gemma 4 when you need a small open model for phones or browsers that reads images and audio; its E2B and E4B models are built for mobile and edge use.

Which Nemotron 3 alternatives can I host on my own server?

All 3: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Gemma 4 and Qwen3.6-27B. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

What licences do they use?

Apache 2.0 (2), MIT (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely.

What do I lose by leaving Nemotron 3?

The hosting. Nemotron 3's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.