NVIDIA

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA's 30B-total, 3B-active hybrid MoE model for high-throughput agentic execution, with a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

ActiveReleased August 11, 2026Knowledge cutoff September 1, 2025Available from 3 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: NVIDIA NVFP4 model card, OpenRouter endpoints

Price per 1M tokens via DeepInfra (OpenRouter)
$0.08 in / $0.2 out
Context window1,000,000
Max output65,536
Cache read$0.04 / M
ModalitiesText → Text
Priced across3 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$0.08 / M
Output$0.2 / M
Cache read$0.04 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$28.00
at current list prices
Fresh input$16.00
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$12.00
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
DeepInfraLowest
$0.08$0.2$0.04—via OpenRouter
Coreweave
$0.1$0.25$0.05—via OpenRouter
Venice
$0.1$0.25——via OpenRouter

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
August 11, 2026 – August 14, 2026$0.05 / $0.2past
August 14, 2026$0.08 / $0.2current

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$0.15 / $0.65 in / out per 1M
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$0.06 / $0.24 in / out per 1M

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