Hosted catalog of 100+ open and NVIDIA models with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Free API key via the NVIDIA Developer Program with no credit card
Try models in-browser playground before self-hosting NIM
Rate-limited (community reports about 40 requests per minute)
NVIDIA Build — straight answers
What is NVIDIA Build?
NVIDIA Build is listed under Model Hosting & Inference APIs, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Hosted catalog of 100+ open and NVIDIA models with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at build.nvidia.com.
Is NVIDIA Build free?
NVIDIA Build is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 404 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
What can NVIDIA Build do?
NVIDIA Build does 4 things the catalog singles out: Hosted catalog of 100+ open and nvidia models with an openai-compatible endpoint; free api key via the nvidia developer program with no credit card; try models in-browser playground before self-hosting nim; rate-limited (community reports about 40 requests per minute).
What is the best free alternative to NVIDIA Build?
Baseten is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Model Hosting & Inference APIs sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Cloudflare Workers AI, Cohere Trial API and Google AI Studio also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.