Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
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NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning uses a 30-billion-parameter MoE with 3 billion active parameters and multi-token prediction. NVIDIA emphasizes English and several programming languages. The checkpoint is therefore aimed at coding and controllable reasoning rather than chat alone.
NVIDIA releases Lightning in BF16 and the more compact NVFP4 format. The model card advertises up to 1M context tokens and distinguishes memory-bound inference on a single H100 from validated configurations using multiple GPUs.
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Weights | Open weightsSource |
| Access | API, LocalSource |
| Parameters | 30BSource |
| Active parameters | 3BSource |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokensSource |
| Release | 2026-08-11Source |
| Parameters | 30 BSource |
| Active parameters | 3 BSource |
| License | OpenMDW-1.1Source |
| Architecture | Mamba-2 + MoE + Attention hybrid with MTPSource |
| Languages | English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, JapaneseSource |
| Input | TextSource |
| Output | TextSource |
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One SVG prompt and fixed output settings. Captures are shown only with 0 reported reasoning tokens or documented lack of reasoning controls. Identical test conditions do not make the models' internal compute identical.
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A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Reasoning (requested): high
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)48.9 / 100
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Speed | Median across serving providers. Output speed after the first streaming chunk, not total response time. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Price | Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. |
| Input | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Output | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Research status | Research date September 8, 2026. 2 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | knowledge-cutoff Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | Vals AI (retrieved September 29, 2026) |
| Additional source | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 model card · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |