Does NVIDIA NIM require a credit card?

We could not verify this from an official page, so we leave it blank rather than guess.

When was this NVIDIA NIM data last verified?

Oct 21, 2026, against: NIM FAQ; build.nvidia.com help.

Free tier/Report for October 2026

Free API tier limits · LLM + multimodal inference

Free NIM API endpoints for prototyping via the NVIDIA Developer Program; production use needs an AI Enterprise license.

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Free for prototyping, research, development and testing only.

Per-model limits shown in your build.nvidia.com account; vary by model and current traffic.

Credits. Separate 90-day NVIDIA AI Enterprise trial for production-grade self-hosting.

API catalog models on build.nvidia.com

build.nvidia.com's help FAQ (as indexed by search engines) states 'up to 40 requests per minute (RPM) for most models'; the page is client-rendered and we could not read it directly, so the RPM field stays blank until verified.
Production use requires an NVIDIA AI Enterprise license (from $4,500/GPU/year per FAQ).

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Does NVIDIA NIM have a free API tier?: Free tier. Free NIM API endpoints for prototyping via the NVIDIA Developer Program; production use needs an AI Enterprise license.
Does NVIDIA NIM require a credit card?: We could not verify this from an official page, so we leave it blank rather than guess.
What are NVIDIA NIM's free rate limits?: Per-model limits shown in your build.nvidia.com account; vary by model and current traffic.
When was this NVIDIA NIM data last verified?: Oct 21, 2026, against: NIM FAQ; build.nvidia.com help.