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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total.

$0.077 in · $0.22 out per 1M tokens262k contextAug 11, 2026

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Price, billed here

Input, per 1M tokens
$0.077provider $0.07
Output, per 1M tokens
$0.22provider $0.20
Cached input, per 1M
$0.044provider $0.04
Margin
+10%

Context and formats

Context window
262,144 tokens
Longest answer
235,929 tokens
Reads
text
Makes
text
First listed
2026-08-11

Measured here, last 7 days

First token, median
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Answered without error
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Tools and JSON

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that...

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