Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
by NVIDIA
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 sp
Models
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
Added 3 Sept 2026
Overview
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...
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free`.
- openrouter ·
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:freeDocs
OpenRouter id: nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 12.9 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 26.8 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 3.5 index
Notes
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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