What's free
1,000,000 tokens free + 60 min Whisper transcription; billing starts at token 1,000,001
Rate limits
Gemma, Llama, Mistral, Qwen
The catch
European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited
Free models · sample
llama-3.3-70b-instructqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70bgemma-3-27b-itqwen2.5-coder-32b-instructA sample of models reachable on the free tier — the live catalog changes. Pull the current set with GET https://api.scaleway.ai/v1/models.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.scaleway.ai/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="llama-3.3-70b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://api.scaleway.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"llama-3.3-70b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'