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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Content Safety

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (NVIDIA) and Nemotron 3 Content Safety (NVIDIA) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 9 September 2026

As of 9 September 2026, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#89 vs #150).

Which should you choose?

Choose Nemotron 3.5 Lightning if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #89 against #150 (44.0 vs 18.1 points).
  • you want provider choice — 2 listed API providers against 0.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Nemotron 3.5 Lightning was listed 11 August 2026, Nemotron 3 Content Safety 6 March 2026.

Choose Nemotron 3 Content Safety if…

  • ModelCap publishes no field on which Nemotron 3 Content Safety leads Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for this pair.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Content Safety: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Nemotron 3 Content Safety
FieldNemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIANemotron 3 Content SafetyNVIDIA
ModelCap Index position#89#150
Index score44.018.1
EvidenceMeasuredInherited
Input price / 1M tokens$0.08Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$0.20Unlisted
Context window262K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens131K—
API providers listed20
Weight accessRestricted licenseRestricted license
Input modalitiesTextText, Image
First listed11 August 20266 March 2026
PublisherNVIDIANVIDIA

Evidence: 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board · finetune of google/gemma-3-4b-it · finetune (100%). Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Content Safety

Public benchmark boards where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Content Safety has a published result
BoardNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Content SafetyLeads
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis13.6intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecified—Only one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis24.3%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron 3.5 Lightning":reasoning=true—Only one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis10.6%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Nemotron 3.5 Lightning":reasoning=true—Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Content Safety: common questions

Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Nemotron 3 Content Safety?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 9 September 2026: #89 against #150. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cheaper than Nemotron 3 Content Safety?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Content Safety?

Both publish a 262K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Content Safety?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Nemotron 3 Content Safety open-weight models?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: Restricted license. Nemotron 3 Content Safety: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Nemotron 3 Content Safety?

ModelCap currently lists 2 API providers for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 0 for Nemotron 3 Content Safety, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Content Safety comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 9 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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