Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

Name: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
Price: 0.1 USD
Author: NVIDIA

Nemotronv3.5 Lightning 30B A3BCurrent

NVIDIA(enterprise)

Released August 11, 2026

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OpenTools Scorenormalized /100

21.1

Valuescore / $M

OpenTools Score

Context1.0M tokens

Price (In / Out)$0.10/M / $0.95/M

Training CutoffMay 2026 post-training; September 2025 pre-training

CategoryLarge Language Model

Max Output32.8K tokens

About Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA open-weight 30B-A3B reasoning model for fast, long-running agents. Its hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention architecture supports function calling, coding, tool use, long context, and efficient local or serverless deployment.

Capabilities

textreasoningcodingtool usefunction callinglong contextagenticlocal deploymentopen weights

Input Modalities

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Output Modalities

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Technical Details

API Identifier: nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
Category: Large Language Model
Context Window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max Output Tokens: 32,768 tokens

Benchmarks

Performance scores for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B across standard benchmarks.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1Artificial Analysis · Aug 2026

24%

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/nemotron-3-5-lightning

14%

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3Artificial Analysis

13.6353%

GPQA DiamondArtificial Analysis

74.3434%

SciCodeArtificial Analysis

32.0602%

Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis

24.3446%

Pricing

Token pricing for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.10/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$0.95/M

per million tokens

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Input tokens/month

Output tokens/month

Input cost$0.10

Output cost$0.48

Estimated monthly cost$0.58

NVIDIA build lists serverless NIM pricing at $0.10 input and $0.95 output per million tokens. Self-hosted weights are also available; infrastructure costs vary.

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