Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?
As of August 20, 2026, Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is 100% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Nemotron Nano 9B v2 costs $0.00 per million input tokens and $0.00 per million output tokens ($0.00 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) costs $0.05 / $0.20 per million tokens ($0.25 blended). Sources: https://build.nvidia.com and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2 cost per million tokens?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) NVIDIA API pricing is $0.05 input and $0.20 output per million tokens via NVIDIA. Nemotron Nano 9B v2 OpenRouter API pricing is $0.00 input and $0.00 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 51.6%. Nemotron Nano 9B v2 does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) supports a 262K token context window, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 supports 128K tokens. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Nemotron Nano 9B v2's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or Nemotron Nano 9B v2 better for production use?
Both Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Nemotron Nano 9B v2 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 in my app?
Yes. Call Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) through NVIDIA and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 through OpenRouter with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2 pricing data?
List rates are the latest published NVIDIA API pricing and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://build.nvidia.com and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) supports up to 262K output tokens per request, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?
Neither Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) nor Nemotron Nano 9B v2 has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2 comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or Nemotron Nano 9B v2 from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
