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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

  • NVIDIA
  • Release · August 11, 2026
  • Open weights
  • Reasoning

Intelligence

Intelligence Index

#137 of 266
  1. 13.313Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)
  2. 13.213EXAONE 4.5 33B (Reasoning)
  3. 13.113Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)
  4. 13.113Gemma 4 26B A4B (Non-reasoning)
  5. 13.113Command A+
  6. 12.913Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
  7. 12.813Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (Low)
  8. 12.713Granite 4.2 30B
  9. 12.513Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium)
  10. 12.513Qwen3.5 Omni Flash
Data from Artificial Analysis

Evaluations

  • AA-Omniscience Accuracy14.4%#182
  • Humanity's Last Exam10.6%#149
  • Terminal-Bench 4.00.5%#86
  • AA-LCR60.3%#128
  • SciCode32.1%#122
  • CritPt0%#143
  • GPQA Diamond74.3%#97
  • τ²-Bench Banking8.9%#71
Nemotron 3.5 LightningMedian
Data from Artificial Analysis

Speed and price

Speed

tokens per second · #8 of 162
  1. 714714Mercury 2.5
  2. 446446Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
  3. 414414Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
  4. 363363Beam 1.0
  5. 353353Trinity Large Thinking
  6. 295295Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
  7. 290290Nova Micro
  8. 277277NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Non-reasoning)
  9. 265265gpt-oss-120b (Low)
  10. 241241NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
Data from Artificial Analysis

Latency

seconds to first token · #4 of 162
  1. 0.50.5North Mini Code
  2. 0.50.5Command A+
  3. 0.60.6Celeris-1
  4. 0.60.6Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
  5. 0.60.6NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)
  6. 0.70.7Ministral 3 3B
  7. 0.70.7Beam 1.0
  8. 0.70.7Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
  9. 0.70.7Granite 4.2 3B
  10. 0.80.8GPT-5.6 Terra (Non-reasoning)
Data from Artificial Analysis

Price

$ per 1M tokens (3:1) · #19 of 169
  1. $0.070.07Sarvam 105B (High)
  2. $0.090.09NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Non-reasoning)
  3. $0.090.09NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
  4. $0.090.09NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Non-reasoning)
  5. $0.090.09gpt-oss-20b (High)
  6. $0.10.1Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
  7. $0.10.1Ministral 3 3B
  8. $0.110.11Granite 4.2 8B
  9. $0.130.13Apertus 8B Instruct
  10. $0.130.13gpt-oss-20b (Low)
Data from Artificial Analysis

Nearby models

  • Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba13.3
  • EXAONE 4.5 33B (Reasoning)LG AI Research13.2
  • Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)Alibaba13.1
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B (Non-reasoning)Google13.1
  • Command A+Cohere13.1
  • Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (Low)Amazon12.8
  • Granite 4.2 30BIBM12.7
  • Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium)Amazon12.5
Data from Artificial Analysis

Same lab

  • Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA26.5
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)NVIDIA22.9
  • Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BNVIDIA21.4
  • Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BNVIDIA11.7
  • Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningNVIDIA10.3
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)NVIDIA8.9
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)NVIDIA7.5
  • NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)NVIDIA7.5
Data from Artificial Analysis
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