So I tested Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra
So I've tested it for around 20 messages just to see how the quality is and I have to admit, I was really not expecting Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra to be actually be good for role-playing especially since it's a free model on OpenRouter but well here we are.
So for the pros:
• It's really energetic and quite creative compared to the other LLMs out there. It feels like I'm talking to Deepseek R1 again.
• It handles character dialogue quite well.
• It doesn't overthink unlike some of the other models (I'm looking at you Kimi and Mimo)
• 1M context window (Again, reminder this is a free model, the only model that I know that can offer that was Owl Alpha on OpenRouter or Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Super model)
• No ozone mention (yay)
The cons:
• It's sometimes inconsistent when it comes to following instructions. Most of the time it will follow instructions just fine but sometimes it just won't for some reason.
• There is some of that "They did not do X - they Y" and it loves to use en dashes (That might either be a pro or con for you)
Now I'm not sure about how it does for NSFW RP and how the positivity bias is for this model because I never bothered to try NSFW RP since I don't do much of it.
But honestly for a free reasoning model, I see it has potential to be a good model for free roleplayers or for people who just don't want to spend too much.