Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
by NVIDIAChat
Fast NVIDIA Nemotron MoE for reliable agentic tasks across enterprise workloads
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Parameters
- 30B total, 3B active
- Released
- 2026-08-11
- Weights
- Open
nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning · also seen as nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16, nemotron-3.5-lightning-free, accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b, nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b, +8 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-08-11
- Weights
- Open
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 262,144
- Providers
- 9 + 9 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.025–$0.080 in · $0.12–$0.24 out per 1M tokens · 8 of 9 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-08-15
- Knowledge cutoff
- Parameters
- 30B total, 3B active
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.025 in / $0.12 out per 1M tokens at Darkbloom on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026, the earliest refresh this model's headline price can be rebuilt from. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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