# Cheapest Nemotron 3.5 Lightning API providers, compared (prices checked Nov 7, 2026)

URL: https://ernd.ai/inference-prices/nemotron-3-5-lightning

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weight model from NVIDIA. On OpenRouter, 5 listings from 5 providers sell it, and the blended price runs from $0.0488 to $0.103 per million tokens.

| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Blended 3:1 | Cache read /1M | Context | Quantization | Latency | Throughput |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darkbloom | $0.025 | $0.12 | $0.0488 | $0.0125 | 262K | INT4 | 1.14 s | 74 tok/s |
| io.net | $0.0469 | $0.134 | $0.0687 | $0.0234 | 262K | Not listed | 0.57 s | 106 tok/s |
| DeepInfra | $0.06 | $0.16 | $0.085 | $0.03 | 262K | BF16 | 0.41 s | 146 tok/s |
| Fireworks | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.0875 | $0.01 | 262K | Not listed | 0.28 s | 327 tok/s |
| CoreWeave | $0.07 | $0.20 | $0.103 | $0.04 | 262K | BF16 | 0.25 s | 164 tok/s |

Blended is three parts input price to one part output, per million tokens. Latency is time to first token and throughput is output tokens per second, both averaged from OpenRouter's daily figures for the last 7 days. Cheapest and fastest only count listings that were up when checked.

## Questions

### What is the cheapest Nemotron 3.5 Lightning API provider?

Darkbloom, at $0.0488 per million tokens blended ($0.025 input, $0.12 output), in OpenRouter's listings on November 7, 2026.

### How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cost per million tokens?

Input runs from $0.025 to $0.07 per million tokens across 5 listings, and output from $0.12 to $0.20. The middle listing comes to $0.085 blended.

### Which Nemotron 3.5 Lightning provider is fastest?

Fireworks had the most throughput over the last 7 days, about 327 tokens per second. CoreWeave was quickest to the first token at 0.25 s.

### How do I pay for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning inference?

Buy OpenRouter credits and it sends each request to one of these providers, or open an account with a provider and pay it directly. The ernd card is a credit card for US companies. It earns 4% back on AI vendor spend and 1.5% back on everything else.

Source: OpenRouter public model and provider listings (https://openrouter.ai/models), checked November 7, 2026.

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