nvidiaListed Aug 1, 2026

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. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that...

Context window262.1K
Max output235.9K
Provider endpoints7
Benchmark results8
Measured performance

Benchmark results

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LiveBench Overall ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
28.69%

Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites

Independent result
LiveBench Design ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
43.9%

Effort: max · single run

Independent result
LiveBench Research ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
40%

Effort: max · single run

Independent result
LiveBench Browser Use ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
0%

Effort: max · single run

Independent result
LiveBench Coding ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
22.6%

Effort: max · single run

Independent result
LiveBench Agentic ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
8.3%

Effort: max · single run

Independent result
LiveBench Reasoning ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02)
42.9%

Effort: max · single run

Independent result
Access & cost

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Fireworks AIStandard · service_tier=default
$0.10
Fireworks AIStandard · service_tier=priority
$0.125
Darkbloom · via OpenRouterdarkbloom/int4 · quantization=int4
$0.055
DeepInfra · via OpenRouterdeepinfra/bf16 · quantization=bf16
$0.10
CoreWeave · via OpenRoutercoreweave/bf16 · quantization=bf16
$0.12

OpenRouter

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$0.04
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262.1K context235.9K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning

fireworks-ai

via Hugging Face
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262.1K contextPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDnvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

Fireworks AI

Standard · service_tier=default

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$0.05
Output
$0.20
Cached input
$0.01
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Price source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDaccounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b

Fireworks AI

Standard · service_tier=priority

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$0.0625
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$0.25
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$0.0125
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Endpoint IDaccounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b

Darkbloom

via OpenRouter

darkbloom/int4 · quantization=int4

Input
$0.025
Output
$0.12
Cached input
$0.0125
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262.1K context32.8K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning::darkbloom/int4

Io Net

via OpenRouter

io-net

Input
$0.0469
Output
$0.134
Cached input
$0.0235
USD / 1M tokens

Source discount 33%; rates as published

262.1K context131.1K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning::io-net

DeepInfra

via OpenRouter

deepinfra/bf16 · quantization=bf16

Input
$0.06
Output
$0.16
Cached input
$0.03
USD / 1M tokens
262.1K context32.8K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning::deepinfra/bf16

CoreWeave

via OpenRouter

coreweave/bf16 · quantization=bf16

Input
$0.07
Output
$0.20
Cached input
$0.04
USD / 1M tokens
262.1K context235.9K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning::coreweave/bf16

Model specifications

Developer
nvidia
Modality
Language
Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
235,929 tokens
Weights
Open weights
Provider listed
Aug 1, 2026
First discovered
Oct 16, 2026

Exact identities

  • openrouternvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
  • huggingfacenvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
  • livebenchnemotron-lightning-3.5

Sources

Updated Oct 20, 2026

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