What's free
Trial credit, phone verification required
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- required
- Commercial use
- evaluation only
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
Up to 40 requests/min and 10,000 requests/day; limits may vary by model and traffic from other users may cause throttling
The catch
"Evaluation only, not production" per NVIDIA's own Trial Terms of Service — NVIDIA may discontinue the trial at any time with no continuity obligation
Free models · sample
01-ai/yi-largeadept/fuyu-8bai21labs/jamba-1.5-large-instructaisingapore/sea-lion-7b-instructbaai/bge-m3bigcode/starcoder2-15bdatabricks/dbrx-instructdeepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instructA sample of models reachable on the free tier — the live catalog changes. Pull the current set with GET https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="01-ai/yi-large",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"01-ai/yi-large","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
Compare
Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-08 Updated rate limits
- 2026-08-14 Updated card requirement
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub