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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)

nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free
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Catalogue observation · 2026-09-22T10:12:30.540Z · Source: OpenRouter
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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...

Provider-supplied description, not an independently validated performance claim.
Input / 1 million tokens$0Published prompt tariff
Output / 1 million tokens$0Published completion tariff
Context window1,000,000Published token capacity

These are the catalogue’s token tariffs. Image, audio, video, search and other charges may use different billing units. Zero token rates alone do not mean those services are free. See the complete pricing fields below and the source model page.

Pros and useful characteristics
  • Published input token pricing is at or below the median of catalogue entries with the same output modalities and known tariffs.
  • Published output token pricing is at or below the same-modality catalogue median.
  • The published 1,000,000-token context window can accommodate larger inputs, subject to gateway limits.
  • No separate per-request fee is listed in this catalogue observation. Other modality charges may apply.
  • The upstream catalogue advertises tool-call parameters. This gateway does not expose them yet.
Cons and practical limits
  • Trident Protocol currently limits requests to text content, 24 KB of conversation and at most 4,096 output tokens. Free variants remain subject to upstream rate limits and availability.
  • No independent latency, uptime, reasoning-quality or coding benchmark has been measured by this application.

Assessment uses published fields and unweighted price medians across 426 entries with the same output modalities and known tariffs. It is a cost-and-capability comparison, not a quality ranking or recommendation.

Observed price history

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One catalogue observation per hour. History begins when this deployment first observes the model. No backfilled or interpolated prices.

Published model tariffsUSD / 1M tokens
InputOutput
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
$0.00
$0.00

Zero baseline. Published token tariffs, not total multimodal cost or performance scores.

Estimate a request

Published tariff arithmetic; not a guaranteed bill or a gateway reservation.

$0.000000 estimated USD

Excludes unlisted provider-specific charges, taxes and any third-party markup. Context limits, reasoning tokens, caching and provider routing can affect the actual result.

Technical profile
Canonical model
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-20260807
Separate request tariff
$0
Upstream output limit
65,536
Gateway output limit
4,096
Upstream inputs
text
Upstream outputs
text
Knowledge cutoff
Not published

Advertised upstream parameters

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningseedtemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p

Upstream capabilities are separate from the text subset exposed by this gateway.

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Complete published pricing

Source fields are retained exactly, including extra charges and tier overrides. Negative values indicate variable pricing, not rebates. An absent field is not evidence that a service is free.

View OpenRouter pricing fields
{
  "prompt": "0",
  "completion": "0"
}
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