Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
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...
Context window
This model accepts 262K tokens in one request (~197K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- FitsSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
Context size, pricing, and release info in one place.
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens (262K)
- Max output tokens
- 262,144 tokens (262K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Nvidia
- Release date
- Aug 2026
Capabilities
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- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Supported
- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Not supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
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