Development · Web app
NVIDIA NIM
Catalog of hosted AI inference microservices with free API endpoints.
NVIDIA NIM hosts optimized inference microservices for dozens of leading open-weight models, including Nemotron, DeepSeek, and Llama variants. Developers can generate free API keys to prototype applications with generous rate limits without running local GPU hardware. It also offers agentic skills, workflow blueprints, and exportable containers for production deployment.
What it's for
- Power coding assistants and CLI tools via free hosted LLM API endpoints
- Prototype AI applications across different open-weight reasoning and text models
- Integrate specialized translation and embedding microservices into custom workflows
- Test agent workflows using pre-built agentic skills and blueprints
Features
- Hosted cloud inference endpoints for open-weight foundation models
- Free API key generation with generous rate limits for prototyping
- Support for reasoning, multimodal, coding, and mixture-of-experts models
- Pre-built agentic skills and reference application blueprints
- NIM containers exportable to private cloud or local DGX infrastructure
- Standardized API schemas compatible with popular developer tooling
Pricing
Freemium. Free tier with rate limits for testing and prototyping; paid enterprise deployment and infrastructure partnerships.
Details
- Type
- Web app
- Category
- Development
- Topic
- AI APIs
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web, API
- For
- Developers and AI engineers looking for free or low-friction hosted model APIs and microservices.
- Alternative to
- OpenRouter, Groq, Together AI, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints
- Tags
- apis, nvidia, nim, llm, inference, free tier, open source models
Why it was saved
- @nick_saraev: Provides fast, free access to popular foundational models (including Nemotron and translation models) with an allowance of up to 40 requests per minute.
- @tpadumke: Provides 40 free LLM API calls per minute without requiring paid subscriptions, suitable as an API backend for coding assistants.
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