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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)

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
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 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
Free
per 1M tokens
Output
Free
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:free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningseedtemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 7, 2026

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OpenRouter

Nvidia

nvfp4
Context
1M
Maximum output
66K
Input
Free
Output
Free
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided
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