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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

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Input
$0.07/M tok
Output
$0.22/M tok
Blended
$0.108/M tok · 3:1
Speed
267tok/s
Context
1Mtokens

Long-tail import from Artificial Analysis (2026-09-24); AA variant: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Price = AA median host price.

Rankings

Self-hostingEstimated

How we estimate →

What it would cost to run these open weights yourself on rented GPUs, compared with the API price above.

Hardware
1× H200 141GB
FP8 weights
Throughput
~8,799 tok/s
many requests batched
Price
$0.044–0.37 /M tok
busy → light use
On your own machine
RTX 5090 32GB (int4, 300+ tok/s single-stream)
single consumer GPU or Mac
Assumptions (5)
  • FP8 weights (30B params, 3B active per token) + 40% KV-cache headroom ≈ 42 GB
  • 1× H200 141GB at $3.59–$7.91/GPU-hour on-demand (2026-09-24)
  • ~8,799 output tok/s aggregate at batch 256 (bandwidth-bound); MoE compute scales with active params
  • Blended 3:1 input:output; prefill ~155,846 tok/s
  • Low = 75% utilization at the low GPU price; high = 20% at the high price

Benchmark scores

~ italic, dashed = no published score yet, estimated from related benchmarks.

Coding

DeepSWE v1.1Estimated
~#29 of 31 (estimated)~41.8%
  1. #1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
  2. #2Grok 4.772.6%
  3. #28Qwen3.8 27B42.2%
  4. ~#29Nemotron 3.5 LightningEstimated41.8%
  5. #29Nex-N2.5-Mini36.1%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
AA Coding Agent IndexEstimated
~last of 15 (estimated)below measured range (<41.1)
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.162.2
  3. #14GPT-6 Luna41.1
  4. ~#15Nemotron 3.5 LightningEstimated<41.1
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks

Hard reasoning

AIME (latest)Estimated
~#14 of 25 (estimated)~66.2%
  1. #1Inkling97.1%
  2. #2Muse Glimmer94.7%
  3. #13Phi-4-reasoning-plus78.0%
  4. ~#14Nemotron 3.5 LightningEstimated66.2%
  5. #14Mistral Large 338.0%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks

Agents

OSWorld-VerifiedEstimated
~#11 of 12 (estimated)~60.8%
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
  3. #10Muse Glimmer65.9%
  4. ~#11Nemotron 3.5 LightningEstimated60.8%
  5. #11Claude Haiku 4.550.7%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld 2.0Estimated
~last of 5 (estimated)below measured range (<47.5%)
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. #2Kimi K358.3%
  3. #4GPT-5.547.5%
  4. ~#5Nemotron 3.5 LightningEstimated<47.5%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
BrowseCompEstimated
~#15 of 18 (estimated)~54.4%
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra91.5%
  3. #14Inkling77.1%
  4. ~#15Nemotron 3.5 LightningEstimated54.4%
  5. #15Mistral Medium 3.548.6%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks