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 | 87 | 38.0 | LS |
Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Agents
Tau3 Banking
9.3%SR
Code
PinchBench
85.4%SR
Instruction Following
IFBench
71.9%SR
Language
MMLU-Pro
81.9%SR
Reasoning
GPQANYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023)
75.4%SR
AA-LCR
52.0%SR
SWE-Bench Verified
51.6%SR
SWE-bench Multilingual
39.3%SR
BrowseCompOpenAI (2025)
37.0%SR
SciCode
32.6%SR
Terminal-Bench 2.1
24.6%SR
Humanity's Last Exam
11.7%SR
Science
OmniScience
17.5%SR
AA Evaluation Indices
(Artificial Analysis)No AA evaluation data available
LLM Stats Category Scores
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Language80
Legal80
Finance80
Healthcare80
Instruction Following70
Long Context50
Physics50
Frontend Development50
General50
Biology50
Chemistry50
Code50
Math40
Reasoning40
Search40
Agents40
Knowledge20
Science20
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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