Nemotron-3_5-Lightning

by NVIDIA

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA's agent-focused open model, released on August 11, 2026 with 30 billion total parameters and roughly 3 billion active per token. The architecture interleaves Mamba-2 and Mixture-of-Experts layers with a small number of attention layers, which keeps throughput high and memory demand modest relative to the nominal parameter count. NVIDIA reports 86% on PinchBench and publishes the weights, training data and recipes under the permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license, which allows commercial use and modification with no licensing fee. The model targets high-frequency agent loops and tool calling, and NVIDIA lists deployment targets running from Jetson and the GeForce RTX 5090 through DGX Spark and DGX Station up to data centre and cloud hardware.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
8K
Max output
โ€”
Input price
$0.06 /1M
Output price
$0.24 /1M
Released
  • onchain settlement available
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

Nemotron-3_5-Lightning runs on 1 route through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance โ€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
EUNot by defaultNo$0.06$0.24

Uptime and availability

Nemotron-3_5-Lightning runs on a single route through the qynio gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

96.35%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. .

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Nemotron-3_5-Lightning has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

Nebius โ€” Finland๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ

Zero data retention is not on by default โ€” abuse monitoring. No training on customer data. EU; deposit available.

Zero data retention
Not by default โ€” abuse monitoring. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable โ€” data stays in EU

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores โ€” composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Global rank#246 of 630 LLMs
TierEfficient
Output speed288 tok/s
First token0.55s
Intelligence Index23.6
Coding Index26.8
Reasoning & knowledge
GPQA Diamond
74%
Humanity's Last Exam
11%
Long-context reasoning
55%
Coding
SciCode
32%

Get started

Call Nemotron-3_5-Lightning through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly โ€” qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "nebius/nvidia/Nemotron-3_5-Lightning",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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