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NLP Cloud — free tier setup
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What you get free
A one-time $15 trial credit on the pay-as-you-go plan — confirmed live on the pricing page: "Automatically get a $15 FREE credit" ($0/month + usage). Catalog raw_text agrees: "Credits: $15 — Requirements: Phone number verification — Models: Various open models (cheahjs)." Category: trial_credit — once the $15 is burned, every request bills ($0.003/request CPU, $0.005/request GPU, plus per-token surcharges). The gotcha that matters most: phone verification is required to receive the trial credit (per cheahjs), and this is a native (non-OpenAI-compatible) API — you can't point an OpenAI client at it.
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown |
| Phone verification | yes (per cheahjs — required for trial credits) |
| Org/membership | unknown |
| Est. time to first key | ~5–10 min if phone verification is smooth (unconfirmed) |
| Trains on your prompts | no per marketing claim — "We do not store your data, and we do not use your data to train our own AI models" (home page); formal policy unverified, catalog says 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.