Yes. As of 2026-10-06, NIM / build.nvidia.com developer credits (NVIDIA); human step: a person completes a signup form; no stated expiry.
Free credits for NVIDIA-hosted NIM endpoints on build.nvidia.com (“anyone can sign up to the NVIDIA API Catalog for free credits”; free Developer Program membership gives “free access to NIM API endp…
Does a provider have a free tier? A–Z
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA |
| Category | inference |
| Offer status | available |
| Deal type | free |
| What is free | Free credits for NVIDIA-hosted NIM endpoints on build.nvidia.com (“anyone can sign up to the NVIDIA API Catalog for free credits”; free Developer Program membership gives “free access to NIM API endpoints for prototyping”), OpenAI-compatible API. NVIDIA publishes no credit count or rate limit on the pages read; the commonly repeated 1,000 credits and ~40 req/min are third-party. |
| Access barrier | api-key |
| How you get a credential | web-form (inferred from the access barrier) |
| Agent-usable | True |
| Evidence | documented |
| Confidence | verified |
| Last verified | 2026-10-06 |
| Source | https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/access-to-nvidia-nim-now-available-free-to-developer-program-members/ |
| Caveats | PROVENANCE CORRECTION 2026-09-08 (second of three; see afr-0004 and afr-0016): this row carried access: "phone-verification" at confidence: verified and its source_url does not support it. That URL is a launch BLOG POST announcing NIM is free to Developer Program members — an unlikely place to document a signup gate, and it documents none. Beware the naive check here: the page contains the string "phone" 54 times and every one is inside a bundled mobile-detect.js device-detection library (iPhone, WindowsPhoneOS, FALLBACK_PHONE); "verification" appears zero times. A grep count would have loudly confirmed a gate that is not there. build.nvidia.com was also checked: zero "phone", and all seven "verification" matches are model copy about video alert verification. The gate is recorded as unconfirmed rather than asserted; expect a Developer Program signup step of some kind. Credit counts remain third-party-reported (NVIDIA does not publish them); evaluation positioning, no production SLA. |
No measured example — this row is evidence: documented: it states what the provider's own page advertised on the date shown, and this worker holds no credential to call it. The provider's documentation is the source: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/access-to-nvidia-nim-now-available-free-to-developer-program-members/
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