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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
nvidia·nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning·GA·Open weights·nemotron series·NEW
Fast NVIDIA Nemotron MoE for reliable agentic tasks across enterprise workloads
At a glance
Official price$0 / $0 per 1M
Cache read — · Nvidia
Lowest paid$0.05 / $0.15
RunInfra Gateway · 10× spread
3 more $0 channels
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 8,192–1,048,576; the table below is authoritative
Output limit262,144
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-08-11 / 2026-08-11
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 8 providers5 with public prices · 3 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NvidiaOfficial nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | First-party | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| Merge Gateway nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | Gateway | Free | — | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 262,144 | ||
| Requesty nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | Gateway | Free | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 65,536 | ||
| RunInfra nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.15 | — | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| Fireworks AI accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b | Cloud | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.01 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.08 | $0.20 | $0.04 | — | 262,144 | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.08 | $0.20 | $0.04 | — | 262,144 | 131,072 | |
| Pioneer nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 | Gateway | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 | 8,192 ⚠ | 4,096 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Fireworks AI$15.20
2RunInfra$17.50
3OpenRouter$21.20
4Kilo Gateway$21.20
5Pioneer$125.00
3 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia, Merge Gateway, Requesty); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
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