Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in the Perplexity Agent API

NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available in Perplexity's Agent API, priced for the high-volume, repetitive parts of an agent's work.

Details

A 30 billion parameter open model that switches on only 3 billion of those parameters for any given request, which is where the speed and low price come from
Priced at $0.0115 per million input tokens and $0.17 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.00115 per million
The model ID is perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
Available in both the Agent API and the Gateway API
Perplexity positions it as the execution layer you pair with a frontier model that does the planning