Nemotron Lightning 3.5 is NVIDIA's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 262K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.1 / 1M input and $0.25 / 1M output. NVIDIA's fast open model targeting always-on agents and high-volume specialized tasks with strong agentic capability.
Specifications
Canonical IDnvidia-nemotron-lightning-3-5
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorNVIDIANVIDIA
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output262K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters31.6B
HuggingFace Likes120
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)15,740
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)15,740
Release Date · 3 days ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
23.6
#158
Coding Index
26.8
#95
GPQA
0.7
#184
HLE
0.1
#176
Time to First Token
0.98s
#451
SciCode
0.3
#243
LCR
0.6
#161
Output TPS

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

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Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
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Nebius
nvidia/Nemotron-3_5-Lightning
$0.06$0.24N/A
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OpenRouter
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
$0.1$0.25$0.05

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Nemotron Lightning 3.5, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 76 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
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/hrwestus2
g7e.2xlargeAWSRTX PRO Server 600096 GB$3.36/hrus-east-1
g2-standard-48GCP4× nvidia-l496 GB$3.99/hrus-east4
7 more instances can run Nemotron Lightning 3.5
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Nemotron 4 15BAvailable
Nemotron Lightning 3.51.0M$0.100$0.250Current
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B1.0M$0.300$1.80Available
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety128KAvailable
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B Omni Reasoning256KAvailable
Nemotron Super 3 120B256K$0.150$0.650Available
Nemotron Nano 3 30B262K$0.060$0.240Available
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B OmniAvailable
Nemotron Nano 3 30B A3B ReasoningAvailable
Nemotron Nano 3 4BAvailable
Nemotron 3Available

Model IDs

nemotron-3-5-lightning
nvidia-nemotron-lightning-3-5
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning