# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning API

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, through an OpenAI-compatible API. 2 providers quote it now, and each request goes to the offer with the lowest estimated charge that meets your rules.

- Providers compete for each request. The exchange ranks the offers that meet your rules by estimated charge. It fixes your maximum charge before the first token, and you pay for the tokens that the model uses.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Use the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK that you have. Set the base URL and your key, and send nemotron-3.5-lightning as the model.
- Your data rules. Send x-liquid-retention: none and only offers whose provider does not keep your content compete for the request.

## Facts

- Model name: nemotron-3.5-lightning
- Maker: NVIDIA
- Context window: 262.1K · 1M tokens
- Input price: $0.050 to $0.053 per million tokens
- Output price: $0.017 to $0.150 per million tokens
- Providers: 2 independent providers
- Regions: us

## Providers

- [amazee.ai](https://liquidinference.ai/providers/98b00cd5-5fdb-4a0d-868e-f0914d9c6231.md): us, $0.050 input and $0.150 output per million tokens, $0.010 cache read per million tokens, 1M tokens of context
- [Pera](https://liquidinference.ai/providers/f651491e-f85b-4f03-b80c-32876aeb80ce.md): us, $0.053 input and $0.017 output per million tokens, $0.053 cache read per million tokens, $0.000072 fee for each request, 262.1K tokens of context

## Scores

- Intelligence: 5.5, #38 of 41
- HLE: 10.6, #158 of 273
- GPQA: 74.3, #136 of 250
- AA-LCR: 60.3, #143 of 237
- SciCode: 32.1, #113 of 123

Scores: Artificial Analysis (https://artificialanalysis.ai/)

## Request

```sh
curl https://router.inference.ai.exchange/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LIQUID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "nemotron-3.5-lightning",
    "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Say hello."}]
  }'
```

## Questions

### What is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a model from NVIDIA.

### How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cost?

Offers now ask $0.050 to $0.053 per million input tokens and $0.017 to $0.150 per million output tokens. A job pays for the tokens it uses. The exchange picks the cheapest eligible offer.

### What is the context length of Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

The largest offer takes 1,048,576 input tokens. One job can generate up to 32,768 tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.

### What can Nemotron 3.5 Lightning do?

Its providers list Reasoning effort, JSON object, JSON schema, Frequency penalty, Presence penalty, Seed, Stop sequences, Top-p sampling, Text, Tools.

### What inputs and outputs does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning support?

Text → Text.

### Which providers serve Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

2 independent providers quote it now, with 2 offers. The table above ranks them by the cost of a typical job.

### How do I call Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Send "nemotron-3.5-lightning" as the model in an OpenAI or Anthropic request. The API section links to setup steps for each client.

### When was Nemotron 3.5 Lightning listed?

The exchange first listed it on 9/29/2026. This is not its release date.

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