Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:freeNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total.
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| Rate | Provider baseline | Free plan · 5% fee | Paid plan · 4% fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| API input / 1M tokens | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| API output / 1M tokens | $0 | $0 | $0 |
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Overview
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that benefit from domain-specific customization.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis indices independent, 0–100
Reasoning Benchmark Evaluations from the model card
| Task | Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 | Qwen 3.6 35B A3B | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Nemotron 3 Nano | Nemotron 3 Super | GPT-OSS 20B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Knowledge | ||||||
| MMLU Pro | 81.94 | 85.63 | 85.20 | 78.46 | 83.89 | 76.40 |
| AA-Omniscience | 17.50 | 19.47 | 22.17 | 20.15 | 26.68 | 16.62 |
| Reasoning | ||||||
| GPQA Diamond (no tools) | 75.44 | 83.40 | 79.61 | 74.05 | 78.60 | 71.46 |
| HLE (text-only, no tools) | 11.72 | 19.56 | 17.42 | 10.89 | 20.30 | 13.76 |
| SciCode | 32.60 | 35.33 | 40.28 | 30.08 | 35.11 | 38.63 |
| Coding & Agentic | ||||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 51.56 | 70.12 | 57.40 | 34.08 | 63.08 | 52.44 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 39.33 | 63.40 | 43.40 | 14.07 | 49.80 | 41.93 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 24.58 | 44.38 | 37.22 | 8.29 | 39.61 | 15.17 |
| PinchBench | 85.37 | 88.07 | 74.70 | 66.11 | 80.36 | 57.20 |
| BrowseComp | 36.97 | 48.74 | 26.30 | 13.74 | 22.77 | – |
| τ³-bench (Banking) | 9.28 | 10.52 | 14.02 | 7.01 | 12.37 | – |
| GDPval-AA-V2 | 832 | 1015 | 807 | 473 | 746 | – |
| Instruction Following | ||||||
| IFBench (loose) | 71.88 | 63.71 | 77.25 | 72.17 | 71.92 | 68.50 |
| Long Context | ||||||
| AA-LCR | 52.00 | 61.06 | 57.56 | 32.75 | 58.44 | 32.88 |
Base Pre-Training Corpus (Nemotron 3 Foundation) from the model card
| Dataset Collection | Token Counts | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Nemotron-CC-v2 & v2.1 | 9.1T | A massive collection of English web data filtered from Common Crawl, including 2.5T+ tokens of new organic, translated, and synthetically rephrased content. |
| Nemotron-CC-Code-v1 | 427.9B | High-quality code tokens extracted from Common Crawl using the Lynx + LLM pipeline to preserve structure and equations. |
| Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v1 & v2 & v3 | 1.7T | Curated GitHub code references with multi-stage filtering, deduplication, and large-scale synthetic code data. |
| Nemotron-CC-Math-v1 | 133.3B | High-quality math pre-training dataset preserving LaTeX formatting and mathematical structures. |
| Nemotron-Pretraining-Specialized-v1 & v1.1 & v1.2 & Nemotron-Pretraining-SFT-v1 | 660.0B | Synthetic datasets targeting specialized domains such as STEM reasoning and scientific coding. |
| Nemotron-Pretraining-Legal-v1 | 4.3B | Synthetic datasets targeting the legal domain. |
Public Datasets from the model card
| Dataset | Collection Period |
|---|---|
| GSM8K | 4/23/2025 |
| CC-NEWS | 4/23/2025 |
| Common Crawl | 4/23/2025 |
| Wikimedia | 4/23/2025 |
| Bespoke-Stratos-17k | 4/23/2025 |
| tigerbot-kaggle-leetcodesolutions-en-2k | 4/23/2025 |
| glaive-function-calling-v2 | 4/23/2025 |
| APIGen Function-Calling | 4/23/2025 |
| LMSYS-Chat-1M | 4/23/2025 |
| Open Textbook Library - CC BY-SA & GNU subset and OpenStax - CC BY-SA subset | 4/23/2025 |
| Advanced Reasoning Benchmark, tigerbot-kaggle-leetcodesolutions-en-2k, PRM800K, and SciBench | 4/23/2025 |
| FineWeb-2 | 4/23/2025 |
| Court Listener | Legacy Download |
| peS2o | Legacy Download |
| OpenWebMath | Legacy Download |
| BioRxiv | Legacy Download |
| PMC Open Access Subset | Legacy Download |
| OpenWebText2 | Legacy Download |
| Stack Exchange Data Dump | Legacy Download |
| PubMed Abstracts | Legacy Download |
| NIH ExPorter | Legacy Download |
| arXiv | Legacy Download |
| BigScience Workshop Datasets | Legacy Download |
| Reddit Dataset | Legacy Download |
Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets of Third Parties from the model card
| Dataset | Model(s) used |
|---|---|
| Global Regulation | Unknown |
| TAUS Translation Memory | Unknown |
| Scale HLE | Unknown |
| HackerRank Coding | Unknown |
| RL data for Search | Gemini 3; GPT-5 |
| Mercor SWE-AgentsV1 | Undisclosed |
Capabilities
Reasoning is available.
Sampling controls: temperature, top_p, max_tokens.
Pricing on Gizmo
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Provider baseline rates
- Input
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- Output
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Examples before the platform fee
This model costs nothing to run. No dollar allowance is consumed. API monthly quotas and per-minute plan limits still apply.
Providers and pricing
One way to run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) on Gizmo.
| Provider | Route | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia · nvfp4Lowest price | OpenRouter | $0 | $0 | 1M | 100% |
Rates are each provider’s, per million tokens, before Gizmo’s 5% (Free) or 4% (paid) fee. “Cheapest” routing starts at the top of this list; “Fastest” starts with the model’s maker.
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