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Nemotron 3.5 LightningOPEN
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.
- $0.11 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 77% of the 191 open-weight models tracked here
- 7 of 10 NVIDIA models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning delivers 35 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
Models at this level cost $0.56 per 1M tokens (median of 13) — this one costs $0.11.
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About this model
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 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?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 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?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.2 per million output tokens.
What is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 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?
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?
Yes. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 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.