Fast NVIDIA Nemotron MoE for reliable agentic tasks across enterprise workloads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B by nvidia is offered by 13 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 10 of them. Its official list price is $0 per 1M tokens. The lowest paid channel is Kilo Gateway at $0.039 / $0.18 per 1M, about 13× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 3 free ($0) channels; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 8,192 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merge Gateway nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | Gateway | Free | — | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 262,144 | ||
| NvidiaOfficial nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | Cloud | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| Requesty nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | Gateway | Free | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 65,536 | ||
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.039 | $0.18 | $0.020 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| RunInfra nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.15 | $0.01 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.16 | $0.03 | — | 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 | |
| Requesty nemotron-lightning-3.5-30b-a3b | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.01 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.01 | — | 262,144 | 131,072 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.01 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 1 of 13 providers.
| Mode | Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| priority | Fireworks AI | $0.063 | $0.25 | $0.013 | — |
3 more channels offer $0 (Merge Gateway, Nvidia, Requesty); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | harness: NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK · variant: BF16; reasoning | 81.94 | score | Source ↗ |
| AA-Omniscience | harness: NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK · variant: BF16; reasoning | 17.5 | score | Source ↗ |
| SciCode | harness: NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK · variant: BF16; reasoning | 32.6 | score | Source ↗ |
| PinchBench | harness: NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK · variant: BF16; reasoning | 85.37 | score | Source ↗ |
| BrowseComp | harness: NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK · variant: BF16; reasoning | 36.97 | score | Source ↗ |
| AA-LCR | harness: NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK · variant: BF16; reasoning | 52 | score | Source ↗ |
| GPQA Diamond | variant: BF16; reasoning; no tools | 75.44 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| Humanity's Last Exam | variant: BF16; reasoning; no tools · dataset: text-only | 11.72 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Bench Verified | harness: NeMo Evaluator · variant: BF16; reasoning | 51.56 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Bench Multilingual | harness: NeMo Evaluator · variant: BF16; reasoning | 39.33 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench | harness: NeMo Evaluator · variant: BF16; reasoning · v2.1 | 24.58 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| tau3-bench | variant: BF16; reasoning; banking | 9.28 | score | Source ↗ |
| GDPval-AA | variant: BF16; reasoning · v2 | 832 | Elo | Source ↗ |
| IFBench | variant: BF16; reasoning; loose | 71.88 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.