dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

dphn · A · Open weights
Params
34.4 B
Context
8,192
30d
4.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
31.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.1 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 34.4 B 31.6 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 8,192 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 6
Downloads 30d 4,843,957 1,082,506
Downloads all time 86.0 M 2.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-05-18 2026-08-01
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.07
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.27
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.04
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 5.5
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 26.8
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 3.5
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 5
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 $0.27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.8 M364 K
dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b · fp16 81.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 224.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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