# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

> NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B is a sparse MoE chat model optimized for low-latency agentic workloads on NVIDIA NIM.

**ID**: `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b`  
**Creator**: nvidia  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 131K tokens  
**Input**: $0.05/M  
**Output**: $0.20/M  
**Released**: 2026-08-01  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

**Input modalities**: text  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, streaming, function-calling, coding

**Aliases**: `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning`, `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free`

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| nvidia | $0 | $0 |
| nvidia-byok | $0 | $0 |
| hue | $0 | $0 |
| openrouter-byok | $0 | $0 |
| openrouter-byok | $0 | $0 |
| router-byok | $0 | $0 |

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b