Nemotron 3.5 Lightningvso1-preview
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | o1-preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | 30B | — |
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 1M | 128k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $15.00 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $60.00 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $7.50 |
| Benchmarks | ||
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 75.4% | 73.3% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 51.6% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Release date | Aug 11 2026 | Sep 12 2024 |
| Access | Open Source | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads o1-preview on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (GPQA Diamond). Only o1-preview has a verified first-party API price: $15.00 per million input tokens and $60.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. o1-preview shipped 698 days before Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 1M (Nemotron 3.5 Lightning) vs 128k (o1-preview). Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is open source, while o1-preview is proprietary.
On GPQA Diamond, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads at 75.4% vs o1-preview at 73.3%.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning was released by NVIDIA on Aug 11 2026.
o1-preview was released by OpenAI on Sep 12 2024.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads on GPQA Diamond — Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 75.4% vs o1-preview 73.3%.
Only o1-preview has a verified first-party API price: $15.00 per million input tokens and $60.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has a 1M context window; o1-preview has 128k.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open source model released by NVIDIA. o1-preview is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.