Models/NVIDIA/Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

30B-A3B open NVIDIA sibling. 836B this week (+999% WoW) on the free leaderboard row. This card is the paid catalog slug nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning at $0.08 / $0.20. AA 24. Hosted NVIDIA is Ultra and Super free, not Lightning. No DeepSWE or vals row.

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Identity

1,048,576Context in
131,072Context out
2026-08-11 (OpenRouter created 1786452751)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Aliases
nemotron-3.5-lightning, nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
Hugging Face
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
Modalities
text
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Vendor lab

Open weights at nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16. Catalog created unix 1786452751 (11 Aug 2026). 1,048,576 / 131,072.

Week-board #18 is the free Lightning lane (836B, +999% WoW). This card’s OpenRouter id is the paid slug. Do not invent a :free hosted id.

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Should I use this for coding agents

Use Lightning when you want this 30B-A3B checkpoint. AA Intelligence Index 24. We do not invent a DeepSWE percent. Hub API 19 Aug 2026: 176 likes, 88,402 downloads.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysispublished integer
24
bench
Artificial Analysis
version
Intelligence Index
harness
published integer
metric
Intelligence Index
value
24
independent as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source

Ranked view: Best coding models: the independent leaderboard puts this row and every other card that carries an independent coding score on one board, with the confidence intervals left visible.

Named benches, printed only

Copied from AA or vals HTML we opened. 0.0% placeholder bars are omitted. Do not average these into the hero tiles, and do not invent CI, $/task, or steps for Artificial Analysis.

BenchPrintedNoteSourceURLAs of
AA list pair $0.07 / $0.22 per 1M Printed AA pair. OpenRouter catalog is $0.08 / $0.20. Artificial Analysis Nemotron 3.5 Lightning source 2026-08-19
AA throughput 313 tok/s Printed Speed row. Artificial Analysis Nemotron 3.5 Lightning source 2026-08-19
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • Need Nemotron 3 Ultra. That is the ranking-week NVIDIA card and the hosted free id. Lightning is the 30B-A3B sibling.
  • Need DeepSWE or vals Accuracy. Neither board printed a Lightning row. Need hosted inference. Hosted NVIDIA is Ultra and Super free.
  • AA $0.07 / $0.22 vs OR $0.08 / $0.20: two published tables.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
NVIDIA license (HF license other)
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 31,577,937,344 stored tensors
Architecture
30B-A3B (OpenRouter + HF card name). No invented layer count.
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 65,844,953,520 bytes
HF created
2026-08-01T06:55:21Z
Official HF repo
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
HF downloads
88,402
HF likes
176

Community quants: Community quants are community.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

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Continuum serving

Not listed as a Continuum hosted id. OpenRouter nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter catalog 19 Aug 2026: $0.08 / $0.20, cache read $0.04 /M. AA prints $0.07 / $0.22, 313 tok/s, $71.45 Index eval. Cite both. No DeepSWE $/task.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 24, fetched 19 Aug 2026. Same page: 313 tok/s; $71.45 Index eval. AA $0.07 / $0.22 vs OR $0.08 / $0.20.

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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OR catalog $0.08 / $0.20, cache $0.04, 1,048,576 / 131,072, created 1786452751OpenRouter catalog2026-08-19
AA Index 24; $0.07 / $0.22; 313 tok/s; $71.45 Index evalArtificial Analysis Nemotron 3.5 Lightning2026-08-19
HF likes 176; downloads 88,402; usedStorage 65,844,953,520; safetensors.total 31,577,937,344; created 2026-08-01T06:55:21ZHugging Face API2026-08-19
836B week tokens on the free Lightning lane (+999% WoW), #18OpenRouter rankings This Week2026-08-19
OpenRouter id nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning, context 1,048,576OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 88,402Hugging Face API nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF162026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through NVIDIA's model family with Nemotron 3 Super (free).

FAQ

Is Lightning the Super free SKU?

No. Hosted Super is nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free. Lightning is nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning.

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.