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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning API pricing

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA’s model on the API market, released 11 Aug 2026. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.

$0.080Input / 1M
$0.20Output / 1M
262KContext
131KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens
Provider
NVIDIA
Model id
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
Input
$0.080
Output
$0.20
Cached input
$0.040
Context window
262K tokens
Maximum output
131K tokens
Takes
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Returns
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Tool use
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Released
11 Aug 2026
First tracked
17 Sept 2026

At $0.080 per million input tokens, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is dearer than 39 of the 326 models on the price list.

Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026

No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.

Coverage
2 stories
  1. NVIDIA Developer Blog ·
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Delivers Fast, Accurate Specialized Task Execution for Long-Running Agents
  2. NVIDIA Developer Blog ·
    Developing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 with QAD Using NVIDIA Model Optimizer
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Prices and specifications come from OpenRouter’s catalogue, last read 17 Sept 2026. A provider’s own price may differ; how this is collected.