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NVIDIANemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B is an open-weight hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention model with 30B total parameters, 3B active parameters, and up to 1M tokens of context.

Token context
1,049K tokens
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Released
Aug 11, 2026

Benchmark Market Position

Intelligence, Cost, and Efficiency

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Intelligence

Rank #43 of 57

  1. 100.0*Claude Opus 5.5
  2. 99.0Claude Fable 5.1
  3. 90.9*GPT-5.5 Pro
  4. 90.0Gemini 3.8 Flash
  5. 85.9GPT-6.1 Sol
  6. 84.6GPT-6 Astra
  7. 83.4*Qwen3.8 Max
  8. 83.3*DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
  9. 82.1Gemini 3.1 Pro
  10. 77.3GPT-5.6 Terra
  11. 74.0*Grok 4.7
  12. 73.5*ERNIE 5.1
  13. 73.3Kimi K3
  14. 71.9*GLM 5.3
  15. 67.5*Qwen3.8 Flash
  16. 64.3*Grok 4.20 Multi Agent
  17. 63.3*Qwen3.7 Plus
  18. 63.1*Claude Sonnet 5
  19. 57.9*DeepSeek V4 Pro
  20. 56.2*GLM 5.3 Flash
  21. 54.6*Mistral Large 4
  22. 54.3*Gemma 4 31B
  23. 52.2Qwen3.8 27B
  24. 50.5*Qwen3.5 397B A17B
  25. 50.1*Hy3
  26. 47.4*Gemma 4 26B A4B
  27. 47.4Inkling
  28. 43.0*Mistral Large 3
  29. 42.3GPT-6 Luna
  30. 37.8*NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B BF16
  31. 35.2*Inkling Small
  32. 33.9*MiniMax M3
  33. 27.0*Kimi K2.7 Code
  34. 25.1*Grok Build 0.1
  35. 20.8GPT-5.4 Mini
  36. 17.8Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
  37. 17.2*Qwen3.5 35B A3B
  38. 15.7GPT-5.4 Nano
  39. 12.8*Muse Glimmer 30B
  40. 11.7*Solar Pro 4
  41. 9.3*Claude Haiku 4.5
  42. 0.4*DeepSeek R1
  43. 0.0*Olmo 3 32B Think
  44. 0.0*Nova 2 Lite
  45. 0.0*Command A
  46. 0.0*Granite 4.2 30B
  47. 0.0*Granite 4.2 3B
  48. 0.0*Granite 4.2 8B
  49. 0.0*Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
  50. 0.0*Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
  51. 0.0*phi-4
  52. 0.0*NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B BF16
  53. 0.0*NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
  54. 0.0*GPT-4o
  55. 0.0*GPT-4o Mini
  56. 0.0*gpt-oss-120b
  57. 0.0*gpt-oss-20b
* Provisional: fewer than 3 sources
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Cost

Not ranked in current cohort

Cost not rankedPublished LiveBench output tokens and a current USD output rate are both required.
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Efficiency

Not ranked in current cohort

Efficiency not rankedBoth an eligible intelligence score and a comparable cost estimate are required.
* Provisional: fewer than 3 sources
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The orange outline marks NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B. Each available panel preserves its real rank and value; missing benchmark or pricing inputs remain explicitly unranked.

Providers & Pricing

1 current hosted offerings

No Directly Sourced Provider Price Yet

API pricing is provider-specific and stays unknown until a serving provider publishes an exact offering for this model version.

Benchmarks

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LMArena Text Arenatext-2026-10-15-a64ca3b12b6e1,328.88rating—19,938nvidia-nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4; 95% CI [1323.35291228, 1334.41299389]; votes 19938; rank 229unknownOriginal sourcewinner eligibleThird-party benchmark

At a Glance

Model Facts

Identity

Status
active
Developer ID
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
Released
Aug 11, 2026
Version
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B
License
openmdw-1.1

Capacity

Token context
1,049K tokens
Maximum output
Unknown
Total parameters
30B
Active parameters
3B
Knowledge cutoff
Not reported

Interface and Access

Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
API available
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Self-hostable
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Vision
No
Tool calling
Yes
Capabilities
agents, chat, generation, reasoning, tools

This page represents one developer model product. Dated API snapshots, serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach as versioned aliases or provider details and never create duplicate public model records.

Version Lineage

PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasesnemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B, nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

Explicit Unknowns

  • Maximum output
  • Knowledge cutoff
  • Provider pricing

Primary Evidence

Sources and Observation Date

nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 developer model repositoryNVIDIA · observed Sep 3, 2026nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 README.md at a9904d24bcc1NVIDIA · observed Sep 3, 2026nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 immutable Hub API metadataNVIDIA · observed Sep 3, 2026nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 tokenizer_config.json at a9904d24bcc1NVIDIA · observed Sep 3, 2026Fireworks Ai catalogFireworks Ai · observed Oct 19, 2026

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Questions

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B FAQs

What is NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B?+

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B is an open-weight hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention model with 30B total parameters, 3B active parameters, and up to 1M tokens of context. It is developed by NVIDIA and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.

What inputs and outputs does NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B support?+

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B's current record lists Text as input and Text as output.

How much context does NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B support?+

The current record lists a 1,049K-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.

Is NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B available through an API?+

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Fireworks Ai.

How large is NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B?+

The current record lists 30B total parameters and 3B active parameters. Its architecture is NemotronHForCausalLM.

What capabilities and tasks does NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B support?+

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B's recorded capabilities are agents, chat, generation, reasoning, and tools. Its supported tasks are coding, reasoning, and text.

How much does NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B cost through an API?+

No directly sourced token price is currently attached to NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B. Missing prices remain unknown rather than being inferred from another model or provider.

Can NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B be self-hosted?+

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B is an open-weight model. Self-hosting is supported, and the recorded license is openmdw-1.1.

Does NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B have related versions or aliases?+

No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B, and nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16.

Which models can NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B be compared with?+

The current compatible peer set includes Qwen3.8 Max, GLM 5.3, Olmo 3 7B Think, Command A, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →

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