Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) Pricing

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    As of August 20, 2026, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) API pricing is $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens. A typical 100K-in / 20K-out request costs $0.009. Source: https://build.nvidia.com

    Source: NVIDIA pricing (https://build.nvidia.com)

    Updated August 20, 2026262.1K context$0.25 blended / 1M

    Input $/M

    $0.05

    Output $/M

    $0.20

    Blended / 1M

    $0.25

    100K / 20K request

    $0.009

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) specs

    Context Window262.1K
    Max Output262.1K tokens
    Release Date2026-08-11
    Knowledge CutoffN/A
    LicenseOpen Source
    ThroughputN/A

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) benchmarks

    HLE11.7%
    GPQA75.4%
    SWE-bench Verified51.6%
    SciCode32.6%
    BrowseComp37.0%
    IFBench71.9%
    AA-LCR52%
    SWE-bench Multilingual39.3%
    Terminal-Bench 2.124.6%
    MMLU-Pro81.9%
    Omniscience17.5%
    Pinchbench85.4%
    Tau3 Banking9.3%

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    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) FAQ

    How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) cost per million tokens?

    As of August 20, 2026, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) NVIDIA API pricing is $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens. Input tokens are the prompt you send; output tokens are the completion. Long answers therefore cost more than short ones even when the prompt stays the same. Source: https://build.nvidia.com

    What is the blended API cost for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)?

    On this page the blended Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) API cost is $0.25 for 1 million input tokens plus 1 million output tokens. That 1:1 mix is the comparison scale used across the LLM pricing table. A 3:1 mix (three million input tokens per one million output tokens), which some calculators use, would be about $0.35.

    How much does a typical Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) request cost?

    A typical Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) API request with 100K input tokens and 20K output tokens costs about $0.009 at current rates as of August 20, 2026. Multiply that by daily or monthly volume to estimate spend. Caching, batch APIs, and volume discounts from NVIDIA can bring the real invoice lower than the public list rate at https://build.nvidia.com.

    What is the context window for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)?

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) supports a 262K token context window and can generate up to 262K output tokens per request. The context window is the total prompt plus conversation history the model can see in one call. Larger windows cost more when you fill them, because every input token is billed per million tokens.

    Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) open source?

    Yes. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is an open-weight model by NVIDIA. You can download the weights and self-host, or pay NVIDIA's hosted API and skip GPU ops. Hosted API pricing on this page is the public per-million-token rate, not the electricity cost of running the weights yourself.

    What benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) perform well on?

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) currently reports HLE 11.7%, GPQA 75.4%, SWE-bench Verified 51.6%. See the performance table for the full eval set. Use those scores with the token prices above when you are choosing between a cheaper LLM and a frontier model. GPQA, SWE-bench, and HLE are the evals people usually compare first.

    Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) good for coding?

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) scores 51.6% on SWE-bench Verified. Pair that score with NVIDIA API pricing on this page: a slightly worse SWE-bench model can still win if it is much cheaper per million tokens. Open the SWE-bench or coding leaderboard from the sidebar for the full ranking, then jump into an LLM comparison against a coding specialist.

    How do I compare Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) with another LLM?

    Use the Compare picker on this page to start an LLM comparison. Search by model or provider, pick a second model, and AnotherWrapper opens a dedicated Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs page with per-million-token prices, blended 1M-in / 1M-out cost, context window, throughput, and benchmarks. You can also open any model from the sidebar, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort the full index.

    What are the cheapest alternatives to Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)?

    The cheapest LLM alternative depends on whether you optimize for blended token cost, coding evals, or context window. Start with the popular matchups on this page, then sort the LLM pricing table by blended cost to see which hosted APIs undercut Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B). Open-weight models can be cheaper still if you self-host, but that is not the same as NVIDIA API pricing on this page.

    How do I use Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) in my application?

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is called through NVIDIA's API with an API key. Bill against input and output tokens separately; cache or shorten prompts if spend is high. If you are shipping a full product, AnotherWrapper includes pre-built API routes and templates for NVIDIA and 5+ other providers with auth, payments, and deployment already configured.

    How accurate is this Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) pricing data?

    This Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) page tracks the latest published NVIDIA API pricing from NVIDIA, quoted per million tokens. List rates can differ from invoices because of prompt caching, batch discounts, committed-use tiers, and private contracts. Official rate sheet: https://build.nvidia.com. Benchmark scores come from official publications and independent evals, not from a private lab run by AnotherWrapper.

    About Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) API pricing

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is a open-source model from NVIDIA. Current API pricing is $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens, with a 262.1K token context window. A blended 1M-in / 1M-out workload costs $0.25.

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