Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Prices checked
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning takes 3 of 5 rounds against Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.04 per million tokens against $0.09.
NVIDIAWins 3 roundsNemotron 3.5 Lightning
262k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.04/M tokensCheapest price, at NanoGPT · 3.1¢ per 1,000 pages
NVIDIANemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
262k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.09/M tokensCheapest price, at Vercel AI Gateway · 4.2¢ per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.07/M
$0.06/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$0.20/M
$0.24/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$0.04/M at NanoGPT
$0.09/M at Vercel AI Gateway
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.10/M
$0.10/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
3.1¢
4.2¢
Context
262k tokens
262k tokens
Open weights
yes
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
no
no
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
11 Aug 2026
14 Dec 2025
Providers selling it
20
18
Price we measure against
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
not published
Providers selling both · 10
Kilo Gateway$0.05 / $0.10
DeepInfra$0.09 / $0.09
Vercel AI Gateway$0.09 / $0.09
TrustedRouter$0.08 / $0.09
Eden AI$0.09 / $0.10
Nous Portal$0.10 / $0.10
OpenRouter$0.10 / $0.10
Nebius Token Factory$0.10 / $0.10
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, then Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, per million tokens; the 8 cheapest of 10.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
Cortecs · 4% cheaper · 6¢ / $0.24 6.3¢ / $0.25
io.net Intelligence · 3% cheaper · 5.2¢ / $0.16 5.1¢ / $0.17- Vercel AI Gateway · 3% cheaper · 6¢ / $0.16 5¢ / $0.20
- Kilo Gateway · 20% dearer · 6¢ / $0.24 5¢ / $0.20
- Nous Portal · 110% dearer · 7¢ / $0.20 2.5¢ / $0.12
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, at $0.04 per million tokens against $0.09 for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 7 Nov 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $0.04 at NanoGPT. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: $0.09 at Vercel AI Gateway.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 10 providers sell both: Kilo Gateway, DeepInfra, Vercel AI Gateway, TrustedRouter, Eden AI, Nous Portal, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Kilo Gateway.
- Which holds more context?
- Both hold 262k tokens in one call.
Prices exclude tax, read 7 Nov 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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