CyrilXBT|4月 29, 2026 10:51
NVIDIA JUST MADE PAID AI APIS LOOK EMBARRASSING.
80 models.
Free inference.
No rate limits.
No data leaving your machine.
No monthly bill growing every time your usage scales.
The open source AI stack that most developers still do not know exists just got very hard to ignore.
Here is what you can run right now for free.
DeepSeek V3. MiniMax M2.7. Kimi 2.5. GLM 5.1. GPT OSS 120B.
Models that compete with the best paid APIs on the market.
Running on infrastructure you control completely.
The builders who figured this out 6 months ago are not paying $300 a month in API bills.
They are running agents at scale, experimenting without cost anxiety, and shipping products with margins that closed competitors cannot match.
The gap between people who know this stack exists and people still paying per token is not a preference gap.
It is a business model gap.
Three lines of setup.
Grab your free API key at http://build.nvidia.com/models
Set your base URL to http://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1
Pick a model and start building tonight.
The infrastructure excuse just ran out.
Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact local AI setups, open source stacks, and free inference workflows I use to build without limits.(CyrilXBT)
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