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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

By Steven Van ·

The Agent API and Router API now support perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b, a fast, efficient open-weight reasoning model, at \$0.0115 per million…

Perplexity announced NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on August 1, 2026.

What changed

The Agent API and Router API now support perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b, a fast, efficient open-weight reasoning model, at \$0.0115 per million input tokens, \$0.00115 per million cached-input tokens, and \$0.17 per million output tokens. See the Agent API Models reference or the Router model catalog.

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