Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)
NVIDIAOpen WeightOpenMDW License v1.1 · Commercial OK
Description
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with ~3B active parameters, built for high-throughput specialized task execution in long-running / always-on agents. It ships with speculative decoding (MTP, DFlash, DSpark), NVFP4 and BF16 checkpoints, and is designed to pair with NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard for routing execution work alongside frontier planners. Released with open weights, data, and recipes under OpenMDW-1.1.
Release Date
2026-08-11
Parameters
30.0B
Context Length
262K
Modalities
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Capability Radar
50
general
50
coding
40
reasoning
43
scienceest.
20
agents
0
multimodal
Science is estimated from LLM Stats science scores or reasoning when no dedicated science benchmarks are available.
Rankings
| Domain | #Rank | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Capability | 121 | 35.0 | LS |
Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Agents
PinchBench
85.4%SR
BrowseCompOpenAI (2025)
37.0%SR
Terminal-Bench 2.1
24.6%SR
Tau3 Banking
9.3%SR
Biology
GPQANYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023)
75.4%SR
SciCode
32.6%SR
Code
SWE-Bench Verified
51.6%SR
SWE-bench Multilingual
39.3%SR
Finance
MMLU-Pro
81.9%SR
General
IFBench
71.9%SR
Knowledge
OmniScience
17.5%SR
Long Context
AA-LCR
52.0%SR
Math
Humanity's Last Exam
11.7%SR
AA Evaluation Indices
(Artificial Analysis)No AA evaluation data available
LLM Stats Category Scores
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Legal80
Language80
Finance80
Healthcare80
Instruction Following70
Long Context50
Physics50
Frontend Development50
General50
Biology50
Chemistry50
Code50
Math40
Reasoning40
Search40
Agents40
Science20
Knowledge20
Tool Calling20
Vision10
Pricing
Input Price$0 / 1M tokens
Output Price$0 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0 / 1M tokens
Speed
No speed data available
Provider Price Ranking
Provider Price Ranking
2 providers
Cheapest: NVIDIAMost Expensive: DeepInfra
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