Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is available now for rag, agents, and long context with open-weight and 1.05m context; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
- Family
- Nemotron 3.5
- Released
- 2026-08-11
- Context
- 1.05m
- Parameters
- 30B (3B activated)
- Architecture
- MoE + SSM Hybrid
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- OpenMDW 1.1Commercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Multi-stage
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (HF nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B) is an open-weight hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts text model with 30B total and 3B active parameters (NemotronHForCausalLM), released 11 August 2026. NVIDIA lists context up to 1M tokens (256K used for single-H100 deployment). Weights ship in BF16, NVFP4 and speculative-decoding (DSpark/DFlash) variants plus a base checkpoint under OpenMDW 1.1. It is offered on build.nvidia.com and OpenRouter (free tier).
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3Bnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightningNo tracked provider token pricing is available yet.