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NVIDIA NIM (build.nvidia.com)

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · build.nvidia.com · back to the whole list

What you get

Free hosted NIM endpoints for 100+ models via the free NVIDIA Developer Program (OpenAI-compatible at integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1)

Free models

nemotron

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Free to start with no card — the account is gated by phone/business-email verification, and access is metered in API credits rather than left open: NVIDIA staff describe the catalog as “a trial experience of NVIDIA NIM limited to 5000 free API credits”, 1000 granted on sign-up. That answer is from 2024 and NVIDIA publishes no current figure; reports since put the ceiling at a ~40 req/min rate limit instead. Production use needs NVIDIA AI Enterprise either way. The catalog renames ids without notice, so copy them from it rather than from an older guide

Connect

• Base URL: https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1
• Key: NVIDIA_NIM_API_KEY — get one at https://build.nvidia.com
• Callable ids: deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, nvidia/nemotron-nano-3-30b-a3b, meta/muse-glimmer-30b
• Note: the catalog endpoint answers unauthenticated, which is what the probe reads — it confirms NVIDIA still hosts these models, not that your account still has credits to call them with, and it publishes no price field at all, so hosting is the only question it can answer

Evidence

• Probe: the models catalog at https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models
• Source: https://build.nvidia.com/explore/discover
• Source: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/api-credits-for-build-nvidia-com/306633

History

• 2026-07-27 — Free models changed: dropped llama-4
• 2026-07-19 — Added to the list: Free hosted NIM endpoints for 100+ models via the free NVIDIA Developer Program (OpenAI-compatible at integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1)

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Generated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.

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