# Nemotron 3 Nano 4B vs Ripple-65B Preview (slim)

> Nemotron 3 Nano 4B scores 56.8 (C) to Ripple-65B Preview's 53.3 (D) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Nemotron 3 Nano 4B scores 56.8 (C) on agent readiness against Ripple-65B Preview's 53.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Ripple-65B Preview leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Nemotron 3 Nano 4B: C 56.8, rank #84 of 121 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-4b.min.md
- Ripple-65B Preview: D 53.3, rank #103 of 121 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ripple-65b-preview.min.md
- Nemotron 3 Nano 4B, good for Agents on laptops, edge boards and small GPUs that need a cheap local tool-calling helper in English Ahead on Reach, 90 against 45; Risk, 65 against 55; Documentation and upkeep, 55 against 49.
- Ripple-65B Preview, good for Teams with Blackwell GPUs or a DGX Spark who want an Apache 2.0 coding model to try for terminal and agentic coding work, and can run the publisher's code to serve it. Ahead on Agent interface, 75 against 70.

| Category | Nemotron 3 Nano 4B | Ripple-65B Preview |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 45 |
| Risk (20%) | 65 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 55 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Nemotron 3 Nano 4B | Ripple-65B Preview |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | NVIDIA | Ricursive Intelligence |
| Licence | NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-03-16 | 2026-11-04 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | not read yet |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +45: Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 90 (Memory earns the full 30, since NVIDIA's own 2.84 GB GGUF needs under 4 GB with the fifth added. Runtimes earn the full 25 from released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, Transformers, Ollama and LM Studio. Builds earn 15 for NVIDIA's FP8 and GGUF. Terms earn 10, since the Nemotron licence is custom even though it's free for commercial use with no threshold or use policy. Download earns 10, with no gate or account. Hosted earns 0, as no Hugging Face provider serves it and no NVIDIA hosting was found.); Ripple-65B Preview 45 (Memory 10 of 30, the smallest 4-bit build is Ricursive's NVFP4 at 57.2 GB, 68.7 GB with a fifth added, which is over 64 GB and fits our reference machine. Runtimes 0, no released runtime runs the ricursive architecture with its own code; Ricursive's SGLang plugin and Transformers' remote code don't count. Builds 10, one quantised precision (NVFP4) from Ricursive. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 with nothing added. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, Ricursive serves no API, Hugging Face maps no provider, Together AI's page says coming soon, and GMI Cloud's and OpenRouter's pages weren't read.)
- Risk, Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +10: Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 65 (File safety earns 15, safetensors and GGUF only but with 10 off because the documented commands pass trust_remote_code and load a parser plugin from the repository. Provenance earns 15, files in NVIDIA's linked organisation with a hash for every file. Safety evaluation earns 0, no results. Agent guidance earns 10, subcards that name prompt injection and the safeguards to add, without an instruction hierarchy. Licence risk keeps all 15, since the switch to the Nemotron licence happened on release day. The security programme earns 10 for the reporting route on the card and NVIDIA's public bulletins.); Ripple-65B Preview 55 (File safety 15, safetensors only, less 10 because the documented way to run it loads Ricursive's Python. Provenance 15, the files are in the organisation ricursive.com links to, with a checksum on every file. Safety evaluation 10, Ricursive's own FORTRESS and StrongREJECT results. Agent guidance 0, nothing on prompt injection, refusals or safeguards. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +6: Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 55 (The model card earns 20, all seven items with limitations in the linked subcard. Training data earns 20, datasets listed with sources and dates, crawled sets with token counts, a cut-off and published NVIDIA datasets, though most synthetic sizes are undisclosed. Last change earns 5, as the files last changed on 20 March 2026, and TensorRT-LLM's Nemotron-H commits since 14 October touch MoE, NVFP4 and Puzzle paths this dense model doesn't use, in release candidates or no release. Responsiveness earns 0, with no NVIDIA reply to any of six questions, re-counted on 4 November. Version policy earns 5 as a first release. File health earns 5, since the LICENSE file is empty, reports and fixes wait without a reply, and the card's Transformers snippet names a repository that isn't public.); Ripple-65B Preview 49 (Model card 14 of 20, no limitations and no knowledge cut-off. Training data 5, a general description with token counts and no cut-off. Last change 20, released today. Responsiveness 0, no discussions yet, read as none answered. Version policy 5, a first release, with the NVFP4 checkpoint replaced in place on release day under a commit note. File health 5, tokenizer_config.json carries a second, tool-less chat template and a 131,072-token limit against the card's 1M.)
- Agent interface, Ripple-65B Preview +5: Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 70 (The chat template earns 20, a Jinja file in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 10 of 25, as only the template shows the format and the parser name appears only in a serving command. Trained tool calling earns 20, with tool-use benchmarks and data and several calls per turn in the template. Structured output earns 0, not claimed or documented. Reasoning control earns 10, thinking off per request with a parser that returns the reasoning apart. Context earns 10 for 262,144 tokens.); Ripple-65B Preview 75 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository. Tool-calling format 25, Ricursive's server README says how tools are declared and calls come back, with the ripple parser in SGLang 0.5.19. Trained tool calling 20, one or more calls a turn and agentic-coding RL. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 0, the template has no thinking switch or effort levels. Context 10, long-context training at 2M-token sequences for a stated 1M.)