# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning — price & specs

Source: https://modelbank.ai/models/nemotron-3.5-lightning · updated 2026-11-12 · ModelBank

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | NVIDIA |
| Input price | $0.07 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.2 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.04 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 235,929 tokens |
| Input modalities | text |
| Reasoning / tool use | yes / yes |
| Intelligence / coding index | 5.5 / 26.8 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 |
| Retirement date | none announced |

## About

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...

## Price history

- 2026-09-24: $0.08 in / $0.2 out
- 2026-09-25: $0.07 in / $0.2 out
- 2026-09-26: $0.08 in / $0.2 out
- 2026-10-01: $0.0595 in / $0.17 out
- 2026-10-02: $0.06 in / $0.16 out
- 2026-10-03: $0.0595 in / $0.17 out
- 2026-10-05: $0.06 in / $0.16 out
- 2026-10-07: $0.049 in / $0.14 out
- 2026-10-09: $0.07 in / $0.2 out
- 2026-10-10: $0.0469 in / $0.13 out
- 2026-10-10: $0.07 in / $0.2 out

## Cheaper alternatives with similar intelligence

- [GLM 5.3 Flash](https://modelbank.ai/models/glm-5.3-flash): $0.0399 / $0.0784, intelligence 27.8
- [Granite 4.2 8B](https://modelbank.ai/models/granite-4.2-8b): $0.06 / $0.15, intelligence 5.1

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