Language model

Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct

NVIDIA

Released: August 21, 2024
Data date: September 26, 2026

Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct comes from NVIDIA’s pruning, distillation, and quantization of Minitron 4B, which itself was compressed from Nemotron 4 15B.

The model card recommends a specific chat template and lists a 4,096-token context for the released checkpoint.

Specifications and access

Specification	Value and source
Weights	Open weightsSource
Access	APISource
Parameters	4 billionSource
License	NVIDIA Open Model LicenseSource
Inputs	TextSource
Outputs	TextSource
Tool calling	YesSource
Context window	4K tokensSource

Sources and data date

Type	Evidence and data date
Additional source	models.dev catalog (retrieved September 26, 2026)
Additional source	NVIDIA Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct model card (retrieved October 2, 2026) · NVIDIA Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct model card · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026
Additional source	NVIDIA Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct quantized card · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026
Additional source	OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Specifications and access

Popularity

Sources and data date