Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Model summary
Speed
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is amongst the leading models in intelligence when comparing to other open weight models of similar size. The model supports text and image input, outputs text, and has a 262k tokens context window.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B scores 21 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 8). When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 230M tokens, which is very verbose in comparison to the median of 100M.
| Reasoning | Yes This page shows the reasoning version of this model. A non-reasoning variant may also exist. |
|---|---|
| Input modality | Supports: text and image |
| Output modality | Supports: text |
| Context window | 262k ~393 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font |
| Total parameters | 74B |
| Active parameters | 9B Number of parameters active per token during inference |
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
- <$0.15 per 1M tokens
- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
- >$1 per 1M tokens
Speed
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries
Artificial Analysis Finance & Accounting Index
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Agentic coding & terminal use
Long context reasoning
Coding
Physics reasoning
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
Agentic business operations
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Medical long context reasoning
Visual reasoning
AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated
AA-Briefcase Elo
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Openness Index
Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Token Use
Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)
Model Size: Total and Active Parameters
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B was released on October 15, 2026.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B was created by NVIDIA.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B scores 21 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other open weight models of similar size (median: 8).
When evaluated on the Intelligence Index, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B generated 230M output tokens, which is at the higher end compared to other open weight models of similar size (median: 100M).
Yes, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B supports text and image input.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B supports text output.
Yes, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B supports image input and can analyze, describe, and answer questions about images.
Yes, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is multimodal. It can process text and image input and generate text output.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B has a context window of 260k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.
Yes, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is open weights. The model weights are publicly available.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B has 74 billion parameters (9 billion active).
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 74 billion total parameters, but only 9 billion active parameters are used during inference.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B achieves a score of 21 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is an open weights model that can be self-hosted. View providers
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B is an open weights model that can be downloaded and self-hosted. Compare providers