Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that…
Full description at the source- Input price
- per 1M tokens
- Output price
- per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1M65.5K max output
- Cost / request
- 8K in · 500 out
01Routes and pricing
02Capabilities
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
ReasoningTool callingSeeded sampling
03Quick start
Call it with your RProuter key
Any OpenAI-compatible SDK works. Point it at the RProuter base URL from your API keys page and use this model ID.
Catalog source: openrouter.ai · checked 2026-09-16
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "A story begins…" }],
max_tokens: 500,
stream: true,
});
for await (const chunk of response) {
process.stdout.write(chunk.choices[0]?.delta?.content ?? "");
}