Nebius (NBIS) NSO Exercise Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · NBISPlan your Nebius NSO exercise (federal, state, FICA) and compare sell-vs-hold for long-term capital gains.
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Your grant
Tax inputs
Hold strategy
Best after-tax payout — at year 1
$199,080
Sell + invest wins by $20,783 over Hold 1 yr.
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Sell + invest
Best payout| Bargain element (sale − strike) | $350,000 |
| Federal | |
| State | |
| Medicare | −$5,075 |
| Additional Medicare | −$3,150 |
| Market gain over 1 yr at 10.0% | $18,573 |
| LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT) | −$5,219 |
| Net at year 1 | $199,080 |
Sell every share immediately; invest the after-tax cash at the market return for 1 yr, then liquidate. Diversified — no single-stock concentration risk.
Exercise + hold 1 yr
| Sale proceeds (year 1) | |
| LTCG tax (federal + state + NIIT) | $0 |
| Net at year 1 | $178,297 |
Sold 2,678 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,322 shares held 1 yr for LTCG.
Social Security + Medicare are payroll taxes (collectively called FICA) — they apply because you're exercising as a current employee.
Both columns are stated in year-1 dollars: sell-now proceeds compound at the market return and pay LTCG on the gain at year 1; any cash paid out of pocket on the hold side carries the same opportunity cost.
Net at year N — by hold period
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
Request beta access →About Nebius
Nebius (NBIS) is a public Cloud/SaaS company, incorporated in P7. IPO'd Oct 21, 2024.
Last close: $265.1 per share (as of 2026-06-17).
GPU cloud; HQ NL.
Equity grants at Nebius typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Nebius Group N.V., headquartered in Amsterdam, is a technology company that provides artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company also owns Avride and TripleTen, as well as stakes in Toloka and Clickhouse. It is headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in Israel and the United States.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
In October 2024, Nebius Group resumed NASDAQ trading under NBIS after Yandex N.V. divested its Russian assets and renamed the surviving Dutch parent. Founder Arkady Volozh (previously Yandex CEO for 25 years) runs the Amsterdam-headquartered company, which builds GPU cloud infrastructure for AI developers. Operations include a Finland datacenter in Mäntsälä, sites in Israel, Paris, and Kansas City, plus a 300MW New Jersey buildout. Microsoft committed up to $19.4 billion for compute capacity, and Nvidia took a stake in the December 2024 financing round.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · nebius.com · techcrunch.com
Equity comp at Nebius
- RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.
Researched 2026-05-07.
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Use this calculator to estimate your Nebius (NBIS) NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA), then compare selling now versus holding through the long-term capital gains threshold. Inputs are yours: grant terms, current price, your income, your state.
Example: at Nebius (NBIS)'s last close of $265.1, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $79.53 strike creates a $927,850 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $250,520 and $417,533 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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Nebius equity questions
- How is a Nebius NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your Nebius grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does Nebius grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Nebius typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise. Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
- When did the Nebius IPO lockup expire?
- Nebius (NBIS) went public on October 21, 2024. The standard post-IPO lockup runs 180 days, so employee and insider shares generally became sellable around April 19, 2025. Confirm against your own grant paperwork, since some lockups release early or in stages.
- Do Nebius RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. Nebius restricted stock units (RSUs) use single-trigger vesting: each tranche becomes yours as it vests on schedule, taxed as ordinary income at that point, with no liquidity event required.
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