NVIDIA offers APIs for AI and accelerated computing, primarily through services like NeMo for building and deploying multimodal generative AI models. Key capabilities include model development, customization, and deployment across various domains. Notable strengths include integration with NVIDIA's hardware platforms (e.g., DGX, HGX) for high-performance computing. Typical use cases involve AI research, life sciences (via BioNeMo), and 3D simulation workflows (via Omniverse Cloud).
NVIDIA NIM provides optimized AI model inference APIs for LLMs, vision, and embedding models through NVIDIA cloud infrastructure.
- Models
- 165 models
- From
- --
- Speed
- 65 tok/s
- Updated
- 7/8/2026
- Latency
- 0.00 s
- Created At
- 8/13/2025
API Endpoints
- Endpoint 1
integrate.api.nvidia.com
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Leaderboard Rankings
Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.
About NVIDIA NIM
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API Benchmarks & Pricing
Compare 164 model rows across audit recency, latest speed tests, throughput, latency, and per-token pricing.
meta/muse-glimmer-30b | 126.5 t/s | 4.82 s | ||||||||||
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | - | - | ||||||||||
nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v2 | - | - | ||||||||||
nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31b | - | - | ||||||||||
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | - | - | ||||||||||
nvidia/nemotron-3-embed-1b | - | - | ||||||||||
| 9.4 t/s | 6.56 s | |||||||||||
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 | - | - | ||||||||||
thinkingmachines/inkling | - | - | ||||||||||
| 43.4 t/s | 2.41 s | |||||||||||
google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it | 697.7 t/s | 0.70 s | ||||||||||
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | 71.5 t/s | 2.08 s | ||||||||||
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety | - | - | ||||||||||
| 19.1 t/s | 1.09 s | |||||||||||
| 148.0 t/s | 13.82 s | |||||||||||
moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | - | - | ||||||||||
| 46.8 t/s | 10.40 s | |||||||||||
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning | 274.5 t/s | 0.66 s | ||||||||||
adept/fuyu-8b | - | - | ||||||||||
aisingapore/sea-lion-7b-instruct | - | - | ||||||||||
baai/bge-m3 | - | - | ||||||||||
bigcode/starcoder2-15b | - | - | ||||||||||
bytedance/seed-oss-36b-instruct | - | - | ||||||||||
databricks/dbrx-instruct | - | - | ||||||||||
deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct | - | - |
Showing 25 of 164 model rows
Free resources
Community-shared API keys and redeem codes associated with NVIDIA NIM.
Free API keys
1| API key / Status | API URL | Models | Submitted |
|---|---|---|---|
nvapi-***yAtj Unavailable | https://api.nvidia.com/v1 | Models pending | Cola_Rs· Jul 23, 2026 |
Recent Test Records
| Time | Model | Speed | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 05:40 AM | moonshotai/kimi-k3 | 9.37 tok/s | 6.56s |
| Aug 24, 05:35 AM | minimaxai/minimax-m3 | 16.21 tok/s | 1.56s |
| Aug 24, 05:29 AM | deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | 9.39 tok/s | 17.98s |
| Aug 23, 06:42 AM | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | 71.83 tok/s | 4.50s |
| Aug 15, 01:41 PM | google/gemma-4-31b-it | 15.83 tok/s | 34.15s |
| Aug 15, 01:35 PM | google/gemma-4-31b-it | 20.05 tok/s | 7.21s |
| Aug 15, 01:30 PM | deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | 11.62 tok/s | 3.51s |
| Aug 15, 01:28 PM | google/gemma-4-31b-it | 26.98 tok/s | 57.95s |
| Aug 15, 01:28 PM | meta/muse-glimmer-30b | 130.68 tok/s | 4.80s |
| Aug 15, 01:27 PM | google/gemma-4-31b-it | 20.36 tok/s | 56.52s |
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| Provider | Why compare | Models | Free | Avg price | Speed | 30d uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA NIM nvidia-nim NVIDIA NIM provides optimized AI model inference APIs for LLMs, vision, and embedding models through NVIDIA cloud infrastructure. | Current provider baseline | 165 | 0 | N/A | 65 tok/s | 9980% |
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| 90 | 0 | N/A | 191 tok/s | 0% |
| 七牛云 qiniu-2 七牛云提供AI大模型推理服务,包括多种模型调用、智能问答助手、代码助手等企业级AI解决方案。 |
| 88 | 0 | N/A | 90 tok/s | 9980% |
| Fireworks AI api-fireworks-ai Fireworks AI provides a cloud platform for running and fine-tuning open-source AI models with optimized inference for production applications. |
| 36 | 0 | N/A | 139 tok/s | 8170% |
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| 15 | 5 | N/A | 36 tok/s | 5860% |
| iTokens itokens iTokens is an OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway with usage-based access to models from DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax, KwaiKAT, and other developers. It publishes per-model token pricing and offers promotional credits to new users. |
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