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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Reviewed 2026-08-12
NVIDIAnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
Context
262K
Price
$0.08/$0.2
Tooling
3/5
Deploy
Cloud API

Best for

  • Writing and editing code
  • Complex reasoning and analysis
  • Long documents (~262K context)
  • Cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads

Skip if

  • You need open weights to self-host

Capability scores

Tool calling3/5
Multi-step reasoning2/5

Specifications

Context window
262K tokens
VRAM
N/A (cloud-hosted)
License
proprietary
Pricing
$0.08/M input · $0.2/M output
Deployment
Cloud API
Docs
Model docs ↗

Our take

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning from NVIDIA offers a 262K-token context window and is well-suited to coding, long-context work. Pricing is $0.08/M input · $0.2/M output, billed per token through the provider API.

Watch for the trade-offs: weights are closed, so you cannot self-host.

Compare to

DeepSeek V4 Flash
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1.05M context · $0.07798/M input · $0.15596/M output
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Google
1.05M context · $0.1/M input · $0.4/M output
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google
1.05M context · $0.25/M input · $1.5/M output

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