Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Thinking
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weight 30B-A3B hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts model for high-throughput agentic, coding, tool-use, instruction-following, and long-context workloads. This variant enables its reasoning trace.
- Reasoning
- Tool Calling
- Parallel Tool Calls
Added Aug 12, 2026
Model weightsPricing
Auto routing · per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.050
- Output
- $0.20
- Cache read
- $0.010
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Parameters
- 30B / 3B
- Total / active
- Avg output (7d)
- 1.9K tokens
- Longer than 90% of models
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Sourced from Artificial Analysis.
Intelligence Index
12.9
Coding Index
26.8
Agentic Index
3.5
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation with guardrail penalties
0.8%
Better than 12% of models compared
AA-Briefcase
Agentic knowledge work (Elo)
505 Elo
Better than 24% of models compared
GDPval-AA v2
Economically valuable tasks (Elo)
641 Elo
Better than 31% of models compared
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional PDF reasoning: all-pass rate
3.0%
Better than 17% of models compared
AA-LCR v1.1
Long context reasoning with updated grading
60.3%
Better than 51% of models compared
MLCR-AA
Medical long-context reasoning
1.1%
Better than 7% of models compared
Reasoning
HLE
Humanity's Last Exam
10.6%
Better than 51% of models compared
CritPt
Research-level physics reasoning
0.0%
Coding
Terminal-Bench v4.0
Practical coding and terminal tasks
0.5%
Better than 35% of models compared
SciCode
Python programming for scientific computing
32.1%
Better than 11% of models compared
Knowledge
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
Proportion of correctly answered questions
14.4%
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate
Rate of incorrect answers among non-correct responses
37.6%
Legacy benchmarks
GPQA Diamond (legacy)
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
74.3%
Better than 55% of models compared
AA-LCR (unversioned / legacy)
Long context reasoning evaluation
60.3%
Better than 51% of models compared
GDPval-AA (unversioned / legacy)
Economically valuable tasks
7.1%
Last updated Oct 12, 2026
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