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The commits are README edits, a config fix and the DSpark link; Liquid's deprecations page records which earlier models this one replaces, without dates.", "/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on www.liquid.ai on 21 October 2026, and Liquid4All/.github has no SECURITY.md.", "Liquid's site and docs link to huggingface.co/LiquidAI, so the repositories are the publisher's own." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.json" }, "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. 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The BF16 and NVFP4 repositories are not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under OpenMDW-1.1. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 65.9 GB for the BF16 repository (one H100 80GB at 256K tokens per the card), 21.6 GB for NVIDIA's NVFP4 build or 19 GB for Ollama's smallest 4-bit build (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "mamba", "hybrid", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "long-context", "safetensors", "nvfp4", "self-hosted", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 34, "interface": 90, "reach": 85, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.", "bestFor": "Agents on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a fast tool-calling reasoning model with long context and a permissive licence", "strengths": [ "Released support in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Transformers, Ollama and LM Studio", "4-bit builds of 19 GB from ggml-org and Ollama, and NVIDIA's own NVFP4 at 21.6 GB", "Safetensors only, with no repository code run to load it or parse its output", "Tool calls documented with a named parser, several per turn, and thinking off per request", "Training data listed with token counts and cut-offs, much of it published", "OpenMDW-1.1 with no gate, no threshold and no use policy, and NVIDIA's own API serves it" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety evaluation results published", "One NVIDIA reply across 12 questions on its two repositories", "Only one quantised build from NVIDIA, and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs", "Structured output claimed but not documented, and no reasoning budget", "The card's llama.cpp recipe names a Q4_K_M file that ggml-org's repository doesn't hold" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`, about 19 to 25 GB of files depending on the platform", "On the reference machine use `llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja`, since the card's Q4_K_M tag doesn't exist there and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs", "With vLLM serve it with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder` (SGLang uses `--reasoning-parser nemotron_3`)", "Use `temperature=1.0` and `top_p=0.95`, as the card says", "Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks", "For coding agents pass `force_nonempty_content: true` in `chat_template_kwargs`, which vLLM's nemotron_v3 parser reads so a cut-off reasoning trace still returns content", "Go past 262,144 tokens only with the card's flags (`VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1`, `--max-model-len 1048576`) and enough memory" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 34, "interface": 90, "reach": 85, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning\n# or, with llama.cpp and the GGUF the card links:\nllama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 -c 131072\n# or, with vLLM on NVIDIA GPUs (the card's command, abridged):\nvllm serve nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is the capital of Japan?\"}],\n \"temperature\": 1.0, \"top_p\": 0.95,\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": false}\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b" }, "sameCompany": [ "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "nvidia-nemo-retriever", "nemo-guardrails", "nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b", "parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v3", "cosmos-reason2-2b", "nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b", "nemotron-3-nano-4b", "nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning", "nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b", "nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "NVIDIA", "params": "30B", "active": "3B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Small hybrid Mamba and mixture-of-experts reasoning model for always-on agents, text only, with tool calling, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "ggml-org NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF (Q4_0)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF", "who": "llama.cpp", "precision": "q4_0", "sizeGB": 18.9, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From ggml-org, the llama.cpp project's organisation, which NVIDIA's card calls the official GGUF weights. Also Q8_0 (33.59 GB) and BF16 (63.18 GB), and separate MTP files of 1.16 to 4.09 GB" }, { "name": "ollama nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-nvfp4", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-nvfp4", "who": "ollama", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 19, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama (MLX)" ], "note": "MLX build for Apple silicon, the smallest in Ollama's library. Size as Ollama's tags page shows it, rounded to whole GB above 10 GB" }, { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 21.58, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "NVFP4 experts with FP8 Mamba projections. Native on Blackwell, W4A16 kernels on Hopper and Ampere, per its card. Needs NVIDIA GPUs" }, { "name": "ollama nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q4_K_M", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q4_K_M", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 25, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "The llama.cpp build Ollama uses on Linux. Size as Ollama's tags page shows it" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF", "who": "lm-studio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 24.52, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio" ], "note": "The build LM Studio's catalogue page links. Also Q6_K (33.51 GB) and Q8_0 (33.59 GB)" }, { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 65.85, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 -c 131072", "runBuild": "ggml-org NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF (Q4_0)", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "NVIDIA (Nemotron)", "family": "Nemotron 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#nvidia", "others": [ { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active (31.6B per the safetensors index)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-Base-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-Base-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16", "params": "4B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-4b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16", "params": "550B total, 55B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-Base-BF16", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B GenRM", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-GenRM", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-Base-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-Base-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-BF16", "params": "74B total, 9B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron Labs 3 Elastic 30B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Elastic-30B-A3B-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron Labs 3 Puzzle 75B-A9B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B-BF16", "params": "75B total, 9B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Labs Ultra Math SFT", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Labs-Ultra-Math-SFT", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Labs Ultra Math RL", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Labs-Ultra-Math-RL", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron Labs 3 Competitive Coding 550B-A55B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Competitive-Coding-550B-A55B-NVFP4", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b", "params": "0.6B (638M per the safetensors count)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b" } ], "olderCount": 43, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NVIDIA Corporation", "domain": "nvidia.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-04-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/commits/main", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The card names NVIDIA Corporation as model developer and the LICENSE file reads Copyright 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION \u0026 AFFILIATES. The Hugging Face organisation nvidia is the one developer.nvidia.com links to. Domain date as recorded for the other Nemotron listings.", "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history. Since release on 11 August 2026 only the cards have changed, most commits reading Update README.md.", "www.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 to our reader on 21 October 2026 for the first batch, so it stays unknown. The card links NVIDIA's vulnerability submission page." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Liquid AI", "b": "NVIDIA", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue)", "b": "OpenMDW-1.1", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-22", "b": "2026-08-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (4)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-smollm3-3b.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs SmolLM3-3B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-smollm3-3b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Spark-X2.6-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 21, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "capability", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 13, "name": "Capability", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 34, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "reach", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 95, "name": "Reach", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 85, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "risk", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 50, "name": "Risk", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 75, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "interface", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 90, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "upkeep", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 57, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 70, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "lfm2-5-2-6b": "A small, fast cousin for tool calls, extraction and long-context steps on a laptop or phone. Liquid's own 4-bit build is 1.6 GB, and every common runtime runs it. It always thinks, isn't meant for coding or knowledge-heavy work, and organisations over $10M of revenue need another licence. There are no safety results or security contact.", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": "A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- LFM2.5-2.6B: grade D, 51.5/100, rank #89 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.json\n- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #21 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### LFM2.5-2.6B (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a small local helper for tool calls, extraction and RAG on a laptop, phone or CPU, at organisations under the licence's revenue threshold\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 85\n\nWatch for: Commercial use isn't licensed for organisations with $10M or more of annual revenue\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a fast tool-calling reasoning model with long context and a permissive licence\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 34 against 13\n- Risk, 75 against 50\n- Agent interface, 90 against 75\n- Documentation and upkeep, 70 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety evaluation results published\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | LFM2.5-2.6B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 13 | 34 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +21 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 85 | LFM2.5-2.6B +10 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 75 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +25 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 75 | 90 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 57 | 70 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.5 · D** | **64.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LFM2.5-2.6B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Liquid AI | NVIDIA |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) | OpenMDW-1.1 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**LFM2.5-2.6B.** A small, fast cousin for tool calls, extraction and long-context steps on a laptop or phone. Liquid's own 4-bit build is 1.6 GB, and every common runtime runs it. It always thinks, isn't meant for coding or knowledge-heavy work, and organisations over $10M of revenue need another licence. There are no safety results or security contact.\n\n**Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B.** A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### LFM2.5-2.6B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run LiquidAI/lfm2.5-2.6b`, 1.7 GB, or `llama-cli -hf LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF`\n2. With vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser lfm2`; for vLLM add `--reasoning-parser qwen3` so the thinking comes back separately\n3. Sample at temperature 0.1, top_k 50 and repetition_penalty 1.1, as the card and generation_config.json set\n4. Put tools in the system prompt as `List of tools: [...]` JSON, or pass tools to apply_chat_template; calls come back as a Python list of function calls, and the system prompt can ask for JSON calls instead\n5. Leave max_tokens unset or generous, since a low cap cuts the reasoning off mid-thought\n6. Earlier thinking is dropped from the prompt unless `preserve_thinking` is true\n7. Liquid's 328M LFM2.5-2.6B-DSpark drafter speeds decoding about 2.6 times in SGLang and on Apple silicon, per Liquid\n8. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`, about 19 to 25 GB of files depending on the platform\n2. On the reference machine use `llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja`, since the card's Q4_K_M tag doesn't exist there and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs\n3. With vLLM serve it with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder` (SGLang uses `--reasoning-parser nemotron_3`)\n4. Use `temperature=1.0` and `top_p=0.95`, as the card says\n5. Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks\n6. For coding agents pass `force_nonempty_content: true` in `chat_template_kwargs`, which vLLM's nemotron_v3 parser reads so a cut-off reasoning trace still returns content\n7. Go past 262,144 tokens only with the card's flags (`VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1`, `--max-model-len 1048576`) and enough memory\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, LFM2.5-2.6B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lfm2-5-2-6b\", \"b\": \"nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b\"}`. 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