← All guides · provider record →
Nebius AI Studio (Token Factory) — free tier setup
What you get free
A one-time trial credit, not a permanent tier. Per the catalog: "Credits: $1" — category trial, shared pool across all models; the balance decays with each billed token and does not renew, and the fetched official pages do not state an expiry window (expiry terms unconfirmed — verify on first signup). Note the rebrand gotcha: this is the service formerly called Nebius AI Studio — docs.nebius.com now redirects to docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com, and older guides pointing at api.studio.nebius.ai are stale.
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | none (Google or GitHub login) |
| Est. time to first key | ~5m (3 steps) |
| Trains on your prompts | unknown |
The rest of this guide — the key-obtain walkthrough, first request, the limits that will bite you, and the rotation runbook — ships with the Indie field library. What you’ve read above is the real first section, not a blurred preview; the remainder simply isn’t in this page.