# NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

By Steven Van · 2026-08-01

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**](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/tools/perplexity>) announced [**NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning**](<https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog#august-2026>) 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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Sources

[Original source](<https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog#august-2026>)

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