NVIDIA Nemotron vs OLMo by AllenAI vs Pleias vs Tülu by AllenAI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
NVIDIA Nemotron
NVIDIA's open-weight LLM family tuned for agentic workloads
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OLMo by AllenAI
Every step open: weights, training data, code and checkpoints
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Pleias
Small open LLMs trained only on permissively licensed data
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Tülu by AllenAI
Ai2's open playbook for turning base LLMs into instruct models
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 6.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
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| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | 2024 | 2024 | — | 2023 |
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| Verdict | Nemotron 3, released June 2026, is the current generation: Nano, Super and Ultra variants sharing a hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts design with up to a 1M-token context. Nemotron 3 Ultra is the flagship — 550... |
OLMo earns its 'radically open' label: not just weights but the full Dolma training corpus, the OLMo-core training code, every intermediate checkpoint, and the OLMES evaluation harness are all public. That's rare even am... |
Pleias takes the opposite bet from the frontier labs: instead of scraping everything and scaling up, it trains small (350M to 3B parameter) models exclusively on Common Corpus, its own roughly 2-trillion-token dataset of... |
Tülu is less a product than a paper trail: Ai2 publishes the SFT data, DPO preference pairs and the RLVR reinforcement method behind each release, so anyone can trace exactly how a base Llama 3.1 or OLMo 2 model became a... |
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