Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weight 30B-A3B hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts model for high-throughput agentic, coding, tool-use, instruction-following, and long-context workloads. This variant enables its reasoning trace.
Added Aug 12, 2026
Model weightsContext Window
1.0M
Max Output
65.5K
Input Price (Auto)
$0.050/1M
Output Price (Auto)
$0.20/1M
Cache Read (Auto)
$0.010/1M
Capabilities
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Performance metrics and benchmarks
Sourced from Artificial Analysis.
Intelligence Index
23.6
Coding Index
26.8
Agentic Index
13.8
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
74.3%
Better than 58% of models compared
HLE
Humanity's Last Exam
10.6%
Better than 59% of models compared
AA-LCR
Long context reasoning evaluation
55.3%
Better than 57% of models compared
GDPval-AA
Economically valuable tasks
16.2%
CritPt
Research-level physics reasoning
0.0%
Coding
SciCode
Python programming for scientific computing
31.6%
Better than 45% of models compared
Knowledge
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
Proportion of correctly answered questions
14.4%
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate
Rate of incorrect answers among non-correct responses
37.6%
Last updated Aug 18, 2026
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