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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning fastruns locally

nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning

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...

Input / 1M

$0.070

USD per million tokens

Output / 1M

$0.20

USD per million tokens

Est. cost / token

$0.000000102

$0.10 per 1M, 3:1 mix

Context window

262K

max output 236K

Major features

Open weightsCachingReasoningJSON schemaTools

Task suitability (heuristic 1–5, not a benchmark)

  • coding3
  • reasoning3
  • math3
  • summarization4
  • extraction4
  • classification4
  • chat3
  • creative3
  • translation4
  • vision1
  • long context3
  • agentic3

Run it locally

Will it run on my machine? →
QuantizationQualityMemory needed (8K ctx)
Q2_Kpoor16.4 GB
Q3_K_Mfair18.7 GB
Q4_K_Mrecommendedgood22.8 GB
Q5_K_Mvery good26.1 GB
Q6_Kexcellent29.7 GB
Q8_0near-lossless37.8 GB
F16lossless68.9 GB

Estimates. Mixture-of-experts: memory covers all parameters; only the active ones are used per token, so it runs faster than its size suggests.

Price history

RecordedInputOutputCachedSource
2026-11-05 03:20$0.070$0.20$0.040openrouter

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Pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

Input
$0.070
Output
$0.20
Cached input
$0.040
Blended (3:1)
$0.10

Details

Company
NVIDIA
Version
3.5
Family
Nemotron
Released
2026-08-11
Parameters
31.6B (3B active)
Max output
236K
Open weights
Yes
Inputs
text
Last synced
46 min ago