NVIDIANemotron 3.5 Lightning
- Released
- Aug 11, 2026
- Tracked since
- 2026-08-12
Intelligence index12.9Ranks 309 of 664 models with this metric
Coding index26.8Ranks 171 of 259 models with this metric
Agentic index3.5Ranks 117 of 156 models with this metric
Capability profile
5 axes vs. site averageNemotron 3.5 Lightning
Site average
Pricing
per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.070
- Output
- $0.220
- Cache read
- $0.050
Performance
- Output throughput
- 266 tokens/sec
- Time to first token
- 600ms
- First answer token
- 8.11s
- End-to-end response
- 9.99s
History
11Intelligence index
23.6→12.9
Output
$0.200→$0.220
Output throughput
416→266
Cheaper at this level
Models with a comparable intelligence index and a lower output price- Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)
AlibabaIntelligence 13.1$0.150−32% - DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (Non-reasoning)
DeepSeekIntelligence 18.9$0.200−9% - Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning)AlibabaIntelligence 13.7$0.200−9%
- Hy3-preview (Reasoning)
TencentIntelligence 22.7$0.210−5% - Hy3-preview (Non-reasoning)TencentIntelligence 17$0.210−5%