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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B is an open-weight model from NVIDIA. It ranks #229 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1331.
LMArena text1331
Rank#229/351
95% interval1325–1336
Votes22.5K
- Developer
- NVIDIA
- Released
- Oct 20, 2026
- Context window
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- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
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- Weights
- Open · OpenMDW-1.1
- Inputs
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- Reasoning
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- Tool use
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LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1331 | 229 / 351 | 22.5K |
| CodingLMArena | 1380 | 194 / 346 | 5.5K |
| MathLMArena | 1366 | 201 / 339 | 1K |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1263 | 260 / 349 | 4.9K |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1321 | 214 / 351 | 7.6K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1341 | 218 / 351 | 14.3K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1329 | 226 / 349 | 3K |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1318 | 231 / 330 | 9.8K |
| ExpertLMArena | 1357 | 194 / 305 | 2.4K |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1317 | 238 / 325 | 1.9K |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1301 | 245 / 325 | 1.6K |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1325 | 217 / 344 | 4.1K |
| ChineseLanguages | 1364 | 210 / 328 | 1.7K |
| SpanishLanguages | 1358 | 184 / 249 | 719 |
| GermanLanguages | 1290 | 203 / 261 | 360 |
| FrenchLanguages | 1380 | 172 / 252 | 776 |
| JapaneseLanguages | 1223 | 200 / 236 | 398 |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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NVIDIA
The GPU maker also publishes Nemotron, open models tuned for enterprise and reasoning. Founded 1993, based in Santa Clara. nvidia.com
Questions
Who makes NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B?
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B is made by NVIDIA, founded 1993 and based in Santa Clara.
How does NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B rank?
#229 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1331 (95% interval 1325–1336) from 22,498 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B open source?
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B has open weights under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.