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...
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Among the 416 chat models on CoreAI, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ranks #222 by context window — 262K tokens, roughly 196,608 words or 393 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #47 cheapest of 147 budget-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2026-08-11. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode).
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00017 on NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.005. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning handles 262K tokens of context — roughly 196,608 words, or about 393 pages of text in one conversation.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning's underlying rates are $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.2 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
No — NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is text-only. If you need image understanding, its budget-tier peers with vision are listed in the comparison table above.
Yes. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super, Nex AGI: Nex-N2.6, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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