Nemotron 3.5 Lightning pricing & benchmarks
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is available from NVIDIA at $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens ($0.103 blended at 3:1). It accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that...
Pricing
Per million tokens · OpenRouter
Input$0.070
Output$0.200
Blended (3:1)$0.103
Specification
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
Context window262K
Max output236K
ReleasedAug 2026
LicenceOpen weights
Modalitiesin:text, out:text
No independently-run benchmark scores are published for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning yet. We show nothing rather than reprinting an unverified figure.
Where to run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
4 hosts · 2.1× between cheapest and dearest. Blended at 3:1. ⚠ marks an option serving less context than the best available, or re-pricing above a prompt-length threshold. Bracketed labels are the provider's own service tier or region.
| Host | Blended $/1M | In / Out | Context | Weights | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darkbloom | $0.049 | $0.025 / $0.120 | 262K | int4 | 100.0% |
| Io Net | $0.069 | $0.047 / $0.134 | 262K | — | 99.2% |
| DeepInfra | $0.085 | $0.060 / $0.160 | 262K | bf16 | 100.0% |
| CoreWeave | $0.103 | $0.070 / $0.200 | 262K | bf16 | 100.0% |
Host prices and uptime from OpenRouter, synced 2026-10-22. Lower-precision weights (fp4, fp8) can cost less and score worse than the same model at bf16 — the score above is not host-specific.
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FAQ
How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cost?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. At a 3:1 input:output mix that blends to $0.103 per million tokens.
What is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning's context window?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context, and can generate up to 235,929 output tokens.