What's free
Trial credit, phone verification required
Rate limits
Some models have reduced context windows on the free trial
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
Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub