Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an MoE model built for fast, reliable agentic tasks across use cases such as financial services, cybersecurity, telecom, and retail.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by nvidia is currently listed from a single provider. Its reference price is $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.20 per 1M output tokens.
Artificial Analysis rates it 12.9 on the Intelligence Index, with 26.8 for coding and 3.5 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.102 per 1M, that is roughly 126 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 299 tokens per second, with 0.56s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0931, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens, with an output limit of 262,144 tokens. 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.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreWeave nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B | Cloud | $0.07 | $0.20 | $0.04 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 |
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.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.