# Perplexity — NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-08-27T17:10:21+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Sonar
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
- Pricing: $0.0115 per million input tokens, $0.00115 per million cached-input tokens, and $0.17 per million output tokens
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/5062-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning

Perplexity's Agent API and Router API now support the perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b model, an open-weight reasoning model, with pricing details.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026:

> The Agent API and Router API now support perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b, a fast, efficient open-weight reasoning model, at $0.0115 per million input tokens, $0.00115 per million cached-input tokens, and $0.17 per million output tokens.

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