Stop Paying $20/month. Use NVIDIA Build: 80+ Free AI Models

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.

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. The service is called NVIDIA NIM e.g. NVIDIA Inference Microservices. It lives at build.nvidia.com. The 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: Just go to build.nvidia.com and create a free account. You'll need to verify your email and possibly your phone number. Once 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: nvapi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx You 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. Read 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 . In 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. Setup takes under two minutes: nvapi- key