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    "value": "$5 free credit for every new Serverless Inference account",
    "summary": "Nscale is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company with an OpenAI-compatible Serverless Inference API. Official pages say every new account can claim $5 free credit, then create a service token and call the API.",
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      "note": "Set category Model APIs and headline $5 after publish (health: missing_category / missing_headline).",
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      "text": "$5 of free API credit — this is Nscale's own launch offer, and it's still live on their site today. 🦎\n\nBobo here. Nscale, the UK AI cloud, puts it in plain words on its official blog: \"every new user can claim $5 of free credit to explore our models.\" Their docs changelog says the same thing — every account starts with $5 free credit. It's for their Serverless Inference platform: an OpenAI-compatible API, so most tools that accept a custom endpoint can point at it directly.\n\nThe model catalog just added GLM-5.3. The official model page (updated Nov 4) prices it at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output — at those rates, the free $5 covers roughly 3.5 million input tokens, or about 1.1 million output tokens, on GLM-5.3. The catalog also carries cheaper models from the Qwen and DeepSeek families if you want the credit to stretch further.\n\nThe fine print, as far as Nscale publishes it:\n• The claim order on their own getting-started list is: sign up, claim the free credit, create your API key. The blog mentions adding a payment card only \"when you're ready to scale\" and buy more credit — nothing on the official pages says a card is needed to claim the $5, though they don't spell out \"no card required\" either\n• No expiry for the $5 is published anywhere on the blog, docs, or changelog — so we can't tell you how long the credit lasts once claimed\n• When the credit runs out, the blog's wording is that you add a card to purchase additional credit — a purchase you choose to make; nothing on the official pages describes any automatic charge\n\n$5 won't run a company, but it's a free, official way to benchmark GLM-5.3 against whatever you're paying for now.\n\nHands-on test: not yet — we haven't opened an account to watch the credit land. Going by Nscale's official blog, docs model page, and changelog.\n\n✓ Source: Nscale official blog (Serverless Inference launch), docs model page & changelog · Checked Nov 5, 2026",
      "posted_at": "2026-11-05T23:09:56.000Z"
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