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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...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
131,072 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
$0.08
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

InputOutput

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

4 providers

Checked: September 23, 2026

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OpenRouter

Darkbloom

int4
Context
262K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.065
Output
$0.18
Cache read
Not provided
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

DeepInfra

bf16
Context
262K
Maximum output
131K
Input
$0.08
Output
$0.2
Cache read
$0.04
Cache write
Not provided
nvidia

4 models

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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming Multilingual 0.6B

Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming Multilingual 0.6B is a speech recognition model from NVIDIA. Its prompt-conditioned, cache-aware FastConformer-RNNT design targets low-latency transcription across more than 40 languages for real-time captioning, voice...

Context
Not provided
Input
audio
Output
transcription
Audio seconds: $0.000003 per second
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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)

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...

Context
1M
Input
text
Output
text
Input: FreeOutput: Freeper 1M tokens
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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Embed 1B (free)

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed 1B is an open text embedding model from NVIDIA, optimized for high-throughput, low-latency retrieval. It is suited for enterprise search, RAG, code retrieval, and agentic retrieval...

Context
33K
Input
text
Output
embeddings
Input: Freeper 1M tokens
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NVIDIA: Llama Nemotron Rerank VL 1B V2 (free)

Llama Nemotron Rerank VL 1B V2 is a 1.7B multimodal reranking model from NVIDIA. It evaluates the relevance of document images and text against user queries, designed for vision RAG...

Context
10K
Input
text · image
Output
rerank
Input: Free per 1M tokensOutput: Free per 1M tokens
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