What is the context window of NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning supports a context window of 262K tokens.

Is NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning free to use?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a paid model. It costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens.

How is LLM API pricing calculated?

LLM pricing has two components: input tokens (everything you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Total cost = (prompt tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 × number of requests.

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning API Pricing — $0.070 Input / $0.200 Output per 1M Tokens

Q: How much does NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cost?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Pricing was last updated Oct 29, 2026.

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by NVIDIA — $0.070 input / $0.200 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 262K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens

$0.070

Output / 1M tokens

$0.200

Provider

NVIDIA

Context window

262K tokens

Via

OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage	Daily	Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)	$0.028	$0.85
Small app (1K/day)	$0.170	$5.10
Mid-scale (10K/day)	$2.40	$72.00
Large scale (100K/day)	$55.00	$1650.00

Model ID: nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

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About NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an LLM developed by NVIDIA. Input costs $0.070 per million tokens and output costs $0.200 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 262K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

Input tokens: $0.070 per 1 million tokens
Output tokens: $0.200 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

Daily cost: $0.1700
Monthly cost: $5.100

Accessing NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is available on OpenRouter with the model ID nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.