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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs WizardLM-2 8x22B
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 11 21.1 | |
| Family | Nemotron | WizardLM-2 |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Apr 2024 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 66K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.10/M tokens | $0.62/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.95/M tokens | $0.62/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | NVIDIA build lists serverless NIM pricing at $0.10 input and $0.95 output per million tokens. Self-hosted weights are also available; infrastructure costs vary. | — |
| Capabilities | textreasoningcodingtool-usefunction-callinglong-contextagenticlocal-deploymentopen-weights | textcode |
| Training Cutoff | May 2026 post-training; September 2025 pre-training | — |
| Max Output | 33K tokens | 8K tokens |
| API Identifier | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | 24artificial-analysis | — |
| View Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | View WizardLM-2 8x22B | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BCheapest | $0.10 | $0.48 | $0.58 | — |
| WizardLM-2 8x22B | $0.62 | $0.31 | $0.93 | +62% |
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA open-weight 30B-A3B reasoning model for fast, long-running agents. Its hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention architecture supports function calling, coding, tool use, long context, and efficient local or serverless deployment.
Microsoft
WizardLM-2 8x22B
WizardLM-2 8x22B is a large language model from Microsoft. Supports up to 65,535 token context window. Available from $0.62/M input tokens.
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