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# NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $0.080/M in, $0.200/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11

 $0.110 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+28.2** higher and costs **5% less** ($0.105/M against $0.110/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[Ling-3.0-flash](/models/inclusionai__ling-3.0-flash) is cheaper still (71% less) but drops 131K → 33K max output.

The same model via **free** is 100% cheaper (free/M) — same weights, different latency.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.080 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.200 /M |
| Cached input | $0.040 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 23.6 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 26.8 |
| Agentic | 13.8 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

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...