# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs pulse-alpha - AI Model Comparison

- Page: https://opencode.ai/data/compare/nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning/unknown/pulse-alpha
- Updated: 2026-11-11T05:09:35.000Z

|  | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | pulse-alpha |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | NVIDIA | Unknown |
| Context window | 262K | - |
| Max output | 262K | - |
| Input modalities | text | - |
| Reasoning | Yes | - |
| Tool calling | Yes | - |
| Open weights | Yes | - |
| Release date | 2026-08-11 | - |
| Input price per 1M tokens | $0.07 | - |
| Output price per 1M tokens | $0.20 | - |
| Cached input price per 1M tokens | $0.04 | - |
| OpenCode tokens: past 2 months | 4.3T | 1.6T |
| Share of all tokens | 0.3% | 0.1% |
| Rank by tokens last week | #15 | #13 |
| Unique users | 171K | 17K |
| Weekly retention | - | - |

Model pages: [Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B](https://opencode.ai/data/nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning.md), [pulse-alpha](https://opencode.ai/data/unknown/pulse-alpha.md)

## Methodology

- Updates: Aggregated every hour. Days and weeks use UTC.
- Tokens: Input, output, reasoning, and cached tokens for each request.
- Users and sessions: Approximate counts of distinct users and OpenCode sessions.
- Cost: Session cost is the average cost per OpenCode session. Token prices are list prices from the OpenCode model catalog.
- Retention: The share of a model's users in one week who use it again the next week.
- Citation: Cite OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data) with the update time shown at the top of the page.