NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
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Model Capabilities & Contract SLAs
- Free Tier
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...
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Standard Prompt)Free / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)Free / 1M
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