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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
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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What published route metadata supports
CachingHugging FaceReasoningStructured outputTool use
Input modalities
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Supported API parameters
frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Only source-backed fields are filled
Release dateNot independently verified
Knowledge cutoffNot independently verified
Open weightsNot independently verified
OpenRouter catalog date2026-08-11
LLMPrice does not infer a release date, knowledge cutoff, or open-weight status from a model name, Hugging Face link, or pricing route.
Could this workload cost less?Compare Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with cheaper models using the same workload.
Find cheaper alternatives →| Endpoint / route | Model ID | Input | Cached | Output | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterFree | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free | $0 | — | $0 | 1M | OpenRouter API ↗ |
| OpenRouterStandard | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | $0.07 | $0.04 | $0.2 | 262K | OpenRouter API ↗ |
Hugging Face references
Presence of a Hugging Face ID is not treated as proof that model weights are open.
12 verified price changes since Aug 26, 2026
0 route availability changes recorded. No earlier prices are inferred.
Input / 1M$0.07Aug 26, 2026 → Oct 11, 2026
Output / 1M$0.2Aug 26, 2026 → Oct 11, 2026
- Oct 11, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
Input $0.0469 → $0.07 · Cached input $0.0234 → $0.04 · Output $0.134 → $0.2
- Oct 9, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
Input $0.049 → $0.0469 · Cached input $0.0245 → $0.0234 · Output $0.14 → $0.134
- Oct 7, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
Input $0.06 → $0.049 · Cached input $0.03 → $0.0245 · Output $0.16 → $0.14
- Oct 5, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
Input $0.0595 → $0.06 · Cached input $0.0297 → $0.03 · Output $0.17 → $0.16
- Oct 3, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
Input $0.06 → $0.0595 · Cached input $0.03 → $0.0297 · Output $0.16 → $0.17
- Oct 2, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
Input $0.0595 → $0.06 · Cached input $0.0297 → $0.03 · Output $0.17 → $0.16