{"slug": "stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models", "title": "Stop Paying $20/month. Use NVIDIA Build: 80+ Free AI Models", "summary": "NVIDIA offers over 100 AI models for free through its NVIDIA NIM service at build.nvidia.com, providing developers with an alternative to paid subscriptions like Cursor's $20/month plan. Users can sign up for a free account, receive up to 5,000 inference credits, and integrate the models into tools like Cursor and VS Code via an API key.", "body_md": "This is a TLDR of a [longer article](https://medium.com/gopenai/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models-0b08205f91b5?sk=e3dec0158ca29b1c2f1231e5dc6b0eab) where I tried multiple free AI models on Cursor and VS Code, through Cline.\n\nThe service is called NVIDIA NIM e.g. NVIDIA Inference Microservices.\n\nIt lives at build.nvidia.com.\n\nThe catalog contains over 100 AI models, many of them free and hosted on NVIDIA's own DGX Cloud infrastructure. The list includes names you already know:\n\nJust go to build.nvidia.com and create a free account. You'll need to verify your email and possibly your phone number.\n\nOnce you're in, navigate to your account settings and generate an API key. Save it, because you only see it once. It looks like this:\n\n```\nnvapi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\n```\n\nYou get 1,000 free inference credits on signup, with up to 5,000 available on request, and a rate limit of 40 requests per minute. No credit card required.\n\nRead about some of the [issues with Cursor](https://blog.gopenai.com/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models-0b08205f91b5?sk=e3dec0158ca29b1c2f1231e5dc6b0eab).\n\nIn Cursor, go to Settings → Models, enable the OpenAI API key toggle, paste [https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1](https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1) as the override base URL, and add your nvapi- key.\n\nSetup takes under two minutes:\n\n`nvapi-`\n\nkey", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/lorenzojkrl/stop-paying-20month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models-17ih", "published_at": "2026-06-17 10:08:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 10:21:36.748387+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["NVIDIA", "NVIDIA NIM", "DGX Cloud", "Cursor", "VS Code", "Cline"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-paying-20-month-use-nvidia-build-80-free-ai-models.jsonld"}}