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Nemotron 3.5 30B A3B Lightning

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Nemotron 3.5 30B A3B Lightning is NVIDIA's language model with a 262K context window, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.0115 / 1M input and $0.17 / 1M output. A mixture-of-experts large language model in the Nemotron series optimized for fast, low-latency inference at scale.
Specifications
Canonical IDnvidia-nemotron-3-5-30b-a3b-lightning
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorNVIDIANVIDIA
Providers
Context Window262K 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
Perplexity logo
Perplexity
perplexity/perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
$0.0115$0.17$0.00115
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Weights & Biases
wandb/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B
$0.07$0.2$0.04

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Nemotron 3.5 30B A3B Lightning, 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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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 3.5 30B A3B Lightning
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Nemotron 4 15B————Available
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B1.0M——Available
Nemotron Lightning 3.51.0M$0.050$0.200Available
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B1.0M$0.250$2.15Deprecated
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety131K$0.200$0.200Available
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B Omni Reasoning256K——Available
Nemotron Super 3 120B256K$0.150$0.650Available
Nemotron Nano 3 30B262K$0.060$0.240Available
Nemotron 3.5 30B A3B Lightning—262K$0.011$0.170Current
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B Reasoning————Available
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B Omni————Available

Model IDs

nvidia-nemotron-3-5-30b-a3b-lightning
perplexity/perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
wandb/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B