Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Name: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Author: NVIDIA

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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Reference model card from the OpenRouter listing - model nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning. Prices are per million tokens as listed; ratings and installs below are from this marketplace.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

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Vendor	NVIDIA
Context window	262,144 tokens
Max output	131,072 tokens
Input price	$0.08 / 1M tokens
Output price	$0.20 / 1M tokens
Input	text
Output	text
Tool calling	yes
Structured outputs	yes
Reasoning	yes
Open weights	nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

Endpoint: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 (OpenAI-compatible), model nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning

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Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

# after Install: the listing is in your workspace's routing pool - nothing else to configure
curl -s -X POST https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/route -H 'Authorization: Bearer $OSR_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text": "...", "plan": true}'
# or pin it on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint: {"model": "model-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning", ...}

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

model-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "model-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning",
  "kind": "llm",
  "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning",
  "description": "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...",
  "publisher": "NVIDIA",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "llm",
      "nvidia",
      "openrouter",
      "open-weights",
      "reasoning",
      "tool-calling",
      "models"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ],
    "modalities": [
      "text"
    ],
    "supports_tools": true,
    "supports_streaming": true,
    "context_window": 262144
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.136,
  "examples": [
    "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..."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "models",
      "ref": "1786452751",
      "url": "https://openrouter.ai/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning",
      "key": "nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning",
      "catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
    },
    "model": "nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning",
    "pricing": {
      "input_usd_per_1m": 0.08,
      "output_usd_per_1m": 0.2,
      "cache_read_usd_per_1m": 0.04
    },
    "max_output_tokens": 131072,
    "output_modalities": [
      "text"
    ],
    "hugging_face_id": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16",
    "reasoning": true,
    "created": 1786452751,
    "benchmarks": {
      "intelligence_index": 13.6,
      "coding_index": 26.8,
      "agentic_index": 6.1,
      "hub_downloads": 582090,
      "hub_downloads_total": 679538,
      "hub_likes": 214,
      "hub_trending": 8,
      "osr_index": 28,
      "osr_coverage": 0.4
    }
  },
  "cost": {
    "usd_per_1k_tokens": 0.00014
  },
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "protocol": "openai",
      "url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
    }
  ]
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/model-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning/manifest?version=1.0.0

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

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