Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Benchmarks, Pricing & Rankings
NVIDIA · 2026-08-07 · Open · Current
Snapshot 2026-11-06 · updated weekly
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ranks #60 of 71 on the AMR leaderboard.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning benchmark scores
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning price, speed & context
Input price
$0.07
per 1M tokens
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Output price
$0.20
per 1M tokens
Speed
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tok/s
Context
256K
tokens
About Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA’s open 30B-total/3B-active mixture-of-experts model (weights on Hugging Face), live since August 2026 and newly boarded after surfacing at rank 30 on OpenRouter weekly token volume with 933B tokens. At $0.07/$0.20 per million tokens it undercuts most tracked models. AMR score is a provisional anchor off its usage rank; benchmarks pending, no track rankings yet.
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning FAQ
Where does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning rank?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ranks #60 of 71 tracked AI models on the AMR aggregate as of October 2026, with an aggregate score of 52.0. Its strongest dimension is AMR at 52.0.
How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cost?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens on the standard API. At a typical 1:3 input/output agent workload, that blends to roughly $0.17 per million tokens.
What is the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning context window?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning supports a 256K token context window and generates at a median 0 output tokens per second. That context fits roughly 171 standard documents in a single prompt.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning open source?
Yes — Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ships open weights that you can download and self-host or serve through any compatible inference provider.
What is better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL ranks one place higher at #59 with an AMR score of 55.0. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning still wins 0 of the tracked dimensions head-to-head — check the comparison table to see exactly which.