NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free
Price Published
- Input
- $0 per million tokens
- Output
- $0 per million tokens
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- Paid version
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning· $0.06 / $0.16
Specifications Published
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Not listed
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
- Listed since
- Aug 11, 2026
Measured by the Club Signed cheapoS reports
- Request success
- Too few to rate 7 of 14 known outcomes succeeded · rates start at 20
- Avg request time
- 52,414 ms 15 timed reports · includes generation
- Rate-limit / quota failures
- 0 of 7 reported failures
15 request reports from 1 member · OpenRouter via OmniRoute · Sep 21, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026
What these numbers mean
1 cancelled and 0 unknown outcomes are excluded from the success percentage. Request success means the provider answered; it doesn't mean the code or task succeeded. The likely range is a 95% Wilson interval: with few outcomes it stays wide, and one bad day can move the rate a lot. Rates need at least 20 known outcomes and averages at least 5 timed reports.
- invalid response: 1
- malformed request: 1
- transient provider: 4
- capability mismatch: 1
How we measure · Reports come from cheapoS members who share model details.
Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
- Intelligence index
- 12.9
- Coding index
- 26.8
- Agentic index
- 3.5
Scores from Artificial Analysis, as distributed in the OpenRouter catalog. They measure test suites, not request reliability on real work.
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About this model OpenRouter description
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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Catalog data from the OpenRouter model catalog, retrieved Sep 29, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC. A listing isn't a live availability check.