Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

NVIDIAMCP Tool CallReasoning

nvidia/nemotron-cascade-2-30b-a3bOpen Weights

Nemotron model for efficient reasoning, coding, and specialized AI agents

Benchmark Pricing$0.00 / 1M in$0.00 / 1M out

Context: 256,000 tokens•Max Output: 32,768 tokens•Released: 2026-03-19

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window256,000256K tokens

Max Output32,76832.8K tokens

LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable

Input Modalities

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Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 256,000 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.NVIDIA_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "nvidia/nemotron-cascade-2-30b-a3b",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);