NVIDIA is giving away free access to 130 AI models for a full year
> most people building AI agents are paying $50-200/month for API access
NVIDIA just made that argument irrelevant
models you get: MiniMax M2.7, GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.5, DeepSeek-v4-flash, GPT-OSS-120B and 110 more
setup:
> step 1 - get your free key
> go to
build.nvidia.com/models
> register -> bind phone -> copy API key
> step 2 - add to Hermes agent
> open Settings -> Model Provider -> Custom
base_url = "
integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1"
api_key = "nvapi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> step 3 - pick a model
model = "minimaxai/minimax-m2.7"
model = "zhipuai/glm-5.1"
model = "moonshot-ai/kimi-2.5"
model = "deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash"
model = "nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b"
> Hermes already has NVIDIA set as default base_url
> paste the key and you're running instantly
> works the same in Cursor and OpenCode
> cost: $0
> limit: 40 req/min
> expires: 1 year
while everyone is paying for API access,
this is sitting there for free