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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Source description (English)

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...

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Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
235,929 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.07
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.2
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.04
per 1M tokens
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Reasoning required
No
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

Input → Output

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

6 providers

Checked: October 10, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Darkbloom

int4
Context
262K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.025
Output
$0.12
Cache read
$0.0125
Cache write
Not provided

Wafer

Not provided
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.035
Output
$0.13
Cache read
$0.017
Cache write
Not provided

Io Net

Not provided
Context
262K
Maximum output
131K
Input
$0.0469
Output
$0.134
Cache read
$0.0235
Cache write
Not provided

DeepInfra

bf16
Context
262K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.06
Output
$0.16
Cache read
$0.03
Cache write
Not provided

Phala

Not provided
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.07
Output
$0.2
Cache read
$0.04
Cache write
Not provided

CoreWeave

bf16
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.07
Output
$0.2
Cache read
$0.04
Cache write
Not provided
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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Embed 1B (free)

Nemotron 3.5 Embed 1B is a multimodal embedding model from NVIDIA for multilingual retrieval over text and document page images (tables, charts, infographics). Queries are text and documents can be...

Context
33K
Input
text · image
Output
embeddings
Input: Freeper 1M tokens
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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Embed 8B (free)

Nemotron 3.5 Embed 8B is a multimodal embedding model from NVIDIA for multilingual retrieval over text and document page images (tables, charts, infographics). Queries are text and documents can be...

Context
33K
Input
text · image
Output
embeddings
Input: Freeper 1M tokens
View model details →
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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Rerank 8B (free)

Input: text, image · Output: rerank

Context
33K
Input
text · image
Output
rerank
Input: Free per 1M tokensOutput: Free per 1M tokens
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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open multimodal mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 12B active parameters out of 120B total. It takes text, images, documents, GUI screenshots, and video...

Context
1.0M
Input
text · image · video
Output
text
Input: $0.15Output: $0.5per 1M tokens
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