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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)OPEN
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- Free — open weights, no per-token cost.
- 2 of 10 NVIDIA models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free), measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) delivers 35 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) is an open-weight AI model by NVIDIA. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) is an AI language model from NVIDIA. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 23.6 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are Free per million input tokens and Free per million output tokens.
What is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 74.3%, Humanity's Last Exam 10.6%, Long Context Reasoning 55.3%, SciCode 31.6%, τ-Bench Banking 8.9%, Terminal-Bench 24.3%. It is particularly used for code generation.
How fast is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)?
It generates about 298.9 tokens per second, with a median 0.79s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Can I self-host Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)?
Yes. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.