Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs $0.08 per 1M input tokens and $0.2 per 1M output tokens, with a 262.1K context window. One of the cheapest models here — below 91% of the rating on output price. Suited to high volume, where a wrong answer is cheap to retry.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.08 / $0.2

Context window

262.1K tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an AI model from NVIDIA, priced at $0.08 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 91% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 262.1K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, reasoning, tool calling, multilingual, open weights. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.08 / $0.2per 1M tokens, in / out

Context262.1K tokenstokens per conversation

VendorNVIDIAall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 91% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$0.17~~AED 1 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.09~~AED 0 per month~~

With caching on input$0.15~~AED 1 per month~~

Standard$1.70~~AED 6 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.85~~AED 3 per month~~

With caching on input$1.52~~AED 6 per month~~

Standard$8.50~~AED 31 per month~~

With batch −50%$4.25~~AED 16 per month~~

With caching on input$7.60~~AED 28 per month~~

Standard$34.00~~AED 125 per month~~

With batch −50%$17.00~~AED 62 per month~~

With caching on input$30.40~~AED 112 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Nemotron 3.5 Lightning sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

Cheaper

DeepSeek

$0.065 / $0.181.31M tokens

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Closest match

NVIDIA

$0.05 / $0.2262.1K tokens

GLM 5.3 Flash

Step up

Z.ai

$0.075 / $0.251.31M tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
General text generation and conversation across languages.

Poor fit

Anything requiring image input — this model does not accept it.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

MultilingualAll 245 models work beyond English

Open weights94 models you can download and self-host

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cost?

$0.08 / $0.2 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 0.29 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

262.1K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Nemotron 3.5 Lightning do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, reasoning, tool calling, multilingual, open weights.

Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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