Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 LightningGA
7.8
AI Panel
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 UltraGA
8.5
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderNVIDIANVIDIA
Family / tierNemotron 3 · LightningNemotron 3 · Ultra
StatusGAGA
Released2026-08-112026-06-04
Knowledge cutoff2025-092025-09

Architecture & context

Context window1.0M1M
Max output tokens——
Input modalitiestexttext
Reasoning modeoptionaloptional
Open weightsYesYes

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input——
Output——
Cached input——
Batch input——
Free tierYesNo

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)——
Time to first token (s)——
Latency tierfastmedium

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsNoNo
Licensecustom-OpenMDW-1.1custom-OpenMDW-1.1
CloudsAmazon SageMaker JumpStart, Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry, OCI Enterprise AI—
Compliance——

AI Panel scoring

Unified score7.88.5
Decision Maker88
Domain Strategist7.58.5
Finance Lead8.58
Domain Practitioner88.5
Power User77.5
Skeptic7.58
Value score98.5

Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro81.9486.8
GPQA Diamond75.4487
SWE-bench Verified51.5670.7
LiveCodeBench—89
Terminal-Bench24.58—
Humanity's Last Exam11.72—
LMArena Elo—1426
LMArena Coding Elo—1474

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.