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| Attribute | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (Free)nemotron-3.5-lightning:free | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $0 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M |
| Output | $0 / 1M | $4.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write | $0 / 1M | — |
| Cache Read | $0 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | — | $1.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | — | $1.40 / 1M |
| Web Search | — | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | NVIDIA | Z.AI |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Free | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 30B total parameters and 3B active per token, optimized for high-throughput agentic workloads and efficient inference. Its lightweight active compute and open design make it well suited for specialized agents, domain-specific customization, and scalable production deployments where speed, cost efficiency, and adaptability are key. | GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's large-scale reasoning model designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon agentic workflows. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, enabling sustained reasoning across large codebases and extended multi-step tasks. Building on GLM-5.2, it delivers stronger coding performance while improving the balance between capability and token efficiency, making it well suited for autonomous coding agents, large-scale engineering workflows, and complex task execution. |