NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 ranks among the top three models globally in OpenClaw.

Judged as of 2026-03-17. True: an OpenClaw leaderboard, benchmark or ranking published on or before that date places an NVIDIA Nemotron 3 model in the top three of all models ranked globally. Mostly true: it ranks in the top three only in a closely related sub-category (e.g. open models, or one OpenClaw task) and the main framing still holds, or it was third or better within days of the date. Mixed: it ranks fourth or fifth. Mostly false: it ranks top three only among a narrow subset (e.g. models of a particular size) and is presented as a global ranking. False: the ranking shows Nemotron 3 well outside the top three, or no such ranking existed.

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1. E1 OpenClaw Arena — Personal AI Agent Benchmark CUHK VNLab (OpenClaw Arena) · 11 March 2026

   “Evaluating 13 frontier models across 100 real-world tasks — measuring task competence and personality consistency for personal AI agents.”

2. E2 Best Models by Success Rate | PinchBench PinchBench (sponsored by Kilo) · 28 October 2026

   “Best Open-Weights 90.4% `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16` Average Score90.4% overall · 10 runs Highest open-weights average across benchmark runs.”

3. E3 Introducing Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning | NVIDIA Technical Blog NVIDIA · 11 March 2026 Own record

   “On PinchBench—a new benchmark for determining how well LLM models perform as the brain of an OpenClaw agent—Nemotron 3 Super scores 85.6% across the full test suite, making it the best open model in its class.”

4. E4 Nemotron 3 Super, one of the best models for OpenClaw deployment, is now free to use via API! You can also try it directly online. - King of Computer Media King of Computer Media (KOCPC) · 26 March 2026

   “In terms of actual performance, on PinchBench—the benchmark specifically designed to test OpenClaw AI agent capabilities—Nemotron 3 Super achieved a score of 85.6%, the highest among comparable open-source models.”

5. E5 Top AI Models Used by OpenClaw | OpenRouter OpenRouter · 29 October 2026

   “Rankings measure usage on OpenRouter and reflect adoption, not model quality or benchmark performance.”

NVIDIA's launch post (E3) reports a PinchBench score of 85.6% for Nemotron 3 Super and calls it the best open model in its class. An independent report (E4) likewise describes it only as the highest among comparable open-source models. Neither source, nor E1, gives Nemotron 3's rank among all models globally. E2 is a later page about a different model (Nemotron 3.5), and E5 ranks models by usage, not performance. The evidence neither confirms nor rules out a global top-three placement as of 2026-03-17.