Nemotron Lightning 3.5 30B A3B is NVIDIA's language model with a 262K context window and up to 33K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.05 / 1M input and $0.2 / 1M output. A 30B-parameter mixture-of-experts Nemotron Lightning model with 3B active parameters, built on the Nemotron-H architecture for efficient high-throughput inference.
Specifications
Canonical IDnvidia-nemotron-lightning-3-5-30b-a3b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorNVIDIANVIDIA
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters30B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching✓
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
azure_ai/FW-Nemotron-Lightning-3.5-30B-A3B
$0.06$0.22$0.01
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b
$0.05$0.2$0.01

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Nemotron Lightning 3.5 30B A3B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 72 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

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FP16 (full precision)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NP20sAzure2× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)128 GB$3.30/hr
g7e.2xlargeAWSRTX PRO Server 600096 GB$3.36/hr
Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4AzureNVIDIA A10080 GB$3.67/hr
7 more instances can run Nemotron Lightning 3.5 30B A3B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Nemotron Super 3 120B A12B1.0M$0.080$0.400Available
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B262K$0.050$0.200Available
Nemotron Lightning 3.5 30B A3B—262K$0.050$0.200Current
Nemotron 3 Ultra—262K$0.600$2.40Available
Nemotron Nano 2 9B131K$0.040$0.160Deprecated
Nemotron Nano 2 12B131K$0.200$0.200Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b
azure_ai/FW-Nemotron-Lightning-3.5-30B-A3B
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b
fireworks_ai/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b
huggingface-reasoning-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-bf16
huggingface-reasoning-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4
nvidia-nemotron-lightning-3-5-30b-a3b