Cosmos 3 Super is a stills row
Cosmos 3 Super is NVIDIA's 4-credit text-to-image still. Empty duration list. Lock the plate, then pick a motion model.
Cosmos 3 Super is NVIDIA's 4-credit text-to-image still. Empty duration list. Lock the plate, then pick a motion model. Cosmos 3 Super is NVIDIA, content type image, category text-to-image, 4 credits, no image required, no 4K badge on the published card, audio empty. The catalog line: high-fidelity generation with optional agentic refinement and prompt expansion for strong prompt adherence. Features: Text-to-image, High-fidelity, Agentic, NVIDIA. Aspects: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. This page is the catalog pick. It is not a Cosmos world-simulator explainer, not a robotics paper, and not a video row we did not publish.
The word Cosmos pulls people toward simulation. On this catalog the published Super card is a still. Prompting a 10-second drive-by will draw a still of a car. Teams then say NVIDIA video is frozen. They never left T2I.
NVIDIA stills, not a simulator
Read the card, not the last keynote.
- ctype: image
- cats: text-to-image
- credits: 4
- requires_image: false
- max output: unset — do not stamp 4K
- durs: empty
- max_reference: unset
- aspects: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4
Four credits matches Imagen 4 and GPT Image 2 T2I on the meter, without their 4K listings. If the insertion order said 4K stills, this is not the badge. Imagen 4 lists 4K at 4 credits. GPT Image 2 T2I lists 4K at 4 credits. Cosmos lists high-fidelity and prompt adherence. Say the ceiling out loud.
Agentic refinement and prompt expansion are stills features. They rewrite or iterate the picture, not a timeline. Optional means you can run a straight generate. It does not mean the row will storyboard a clip. Treat expansion like Qwen Image 3's rewriting: quote the strings you would print, because a helpful expander will paraphrase a claim into a slogan you cannot legal.
No edit category. If the still is 90 percent right, leave this slug. Qwen Image Edit is 3 credits and 4K for a pointed change. Pruna is 1 credit for bulk retouch. Re-rolling Cosmos to delete a cup is a new kitchen.
The door is text to image. Confirm cosmos-3-super, 4 credits, no seconds. If the UI shows a duration menu, you are on a different NVIDIA-shaped hope. Stay on the stills slug.
What the card lists
Pick Cosmos 3 Super when:
- You want an NVIDIA stills generate at 4 credits with a prompt-adherence bet.
- The aspect is one of 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Set it to the slot. A 16:9 plate you later pillarbox for Shorts is a crop.
- You have no source file. The prompt is the brief.
- High-fidelity is the look you are buying, not Flux-max photoreal at 7 credits and not Higgsfield drama at 23.
Skip Cosmos when:
- You needed 4K listed. Pick a 4K card.
- You needed an editor. This is T2I only.
- You needed dense multilingual type. Seedream 5.0 Pro is 7 credits, 14 languages.
- You needed a 1-credit hunt. Turbo is the hunt. Cosmos is a 4-credit generate.
- You needed motion. Buy I2V or T2V by name.
Versus Imagen 4: both 4 credits, both T2I, Imagen lists 4K and photoreal text-only. Versus GPT Image 2 T2I: both 4 credits, GPT lists 4K and a wider aspect menu. Versus Flux 2 Max: 7 credits, photoreal, no 4K badge. Cosmos is the NVIDIA adherence still at 4. Pick it when that sentence is the brief, not because NVIDIA is "the video company" in a roundup tab.
Do not invent launch-day benchmarks. The catalog dates the card; it does not publish an Elo on this page. If you have an arena screenshot, treat it as a prior, then run your still.
Agentic refinement is still a still
The failure mode is treating "agentic" as a studio.
A studio, in production terms, is where you pick the model the job needs, caption, fail over, and keep a credit pool. Cosmos 3 Super is a generate button with optional refinement on a still. It will not caption. It will not lipsync. It will not extend 7 seconds. Veo 3.1 is 40 credits, native audio, 4 / 6 / 8 seconds, 4K, when the shot is Veo. Omni Video is 9 credits, 4–10s. Hailuo 2.3 Fast is 28 credits, 6s / 10s. Those are motion rows. Cosmos is the plate.
Prompt expansion that "helps" a product brief will add props. If the SKU must be alone on marble, say so. If a human must not appear, say so. Refinement that adds a smile to a generated face is a new likeness problem, not a better still.
Article 50 can apply to a realistic still of a real person. Read Article 50. NVIDIA on the card does not change deployer labelling.
Then motion
Monday: one Cosmos still at the real aspect. If it would not print, refine once or rewrite the spec. Do not expand the prompt into a shot list.
Tuesday: if one object is wrong, an edit slug. Not a new Cosmos identity unless the whole plate is wrong.
Wednesday: if the still must move, image-to-video on the keeper. The AI video generator is the motion door. It will not run Cosmos as a clip.
Thursday: captions. Add captions to video.
Friday: do not open Cosmos 3 Super to add physics over time. There is no time. There is a high-fidelity PNG.
The test: would you run this slug if you knew the output could not move? If yes, 4 credits, NVIDIA stills, prompt as a spec. If you only wanted a simulator, this catalog did not publish that as cosmos-3-super.
Lock the NVIDIA still, then sign up when the job is a 4-credit T2I plate. Cosmos 3 Super stays a stills row.
FAQ
Is Cosmos 3 Super NVIDIA's video model on Versely?
No. The published Super card is text-to-image at 4 credits. After the still, pick a named video slug. Do not invent a Cosmos T2V row.
Does agentic refinement add seconds of motion?
No. Refinement is a stills pass. Empty duration list. You will get another picture, not a timeline.
Does it list 4K?
Not on this card. High-fidelity is the published claim. If the order said 4K, use a row that lists 4K or upscale separately.