Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is NVIDIA's open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 30 billion total parameters (3B active), built for long-running agentic tasks. It delivers efficient agentic coding performance, ranking second on PinchBench, with a 262K token context window.
Key Specifications
Parameters
30.0B
Context
262.1K
Release Date
August 11, 2026
Average Score
45.3%
Timeline
Key dates in the model's history
Announcement
August 11, 2026
Last Update
August 27, 2026
Today
September 8, 2026
Technical Specifications
Parameters
30.0B
Training Tokens
-
Knowledge Cutoff
-
Family
-
Capabilities
MultimodalZeroEval
Pricing & Availability
Input (per 1M tokens)
$0.05
Output (per 1M tokens)
$0.20
Max Input Tokens
262.1K
Max Output Tokens
262.1K
Supported Features
Function CallingStructured OutputCode ExecutionWeb SearchBatch InferenceFine-tuning
Benchmark Results
Model performance metrics across various tests and benchmarks
Programming
Programming skills tests
SWE-Bench Verified
NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
Reasoning
Logical reasoning and analysis
GPQA
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16; GPQA Diamond (no tools) • Self-reported
Other Tests
Specialized benchmarks
PinchBench
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
MMLU-Pro
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
IFBench
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16; loose • Self-reported
AA-LCR
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
BrowseComp
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
Humanity's Last Exam
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16; text-only, no tools • Self-reported
OmniScience
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16; AA-Omniscience accuracy • Self-reported
SciCode
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
SWE-bench Multilingual
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
Tau3 Banking
NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator; BF16; τ³-bench (Banking) • Self-reported
Terminal-Bench 2.1
NeMo Evaluator; BF16 • Self-reported
License & Metadata
License
openmdw_license_v1_1
Announcement Date
August 11, 2026
Last Updated
August 27, 2026
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