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Scaleway Generative APIs — free tier setup
What you get free
Trial credits, not a permanent free tier. Per the catalog: "Credits: 1,000,000 free tokens" — from the cheahjs seed repo; "whether it is one-time or recurring is unconfirmed," and the figure was not found on the official pages fetched this session. Scaleway is an EU (French) cloud: serverless endpoints for open models (Mistral, Qwen, gpt-oss, Pixtral), OpenAI-compatible, hosted in European data centers. The gotcha: official rate-limit docs say "Base limits apply if you registered a valid payment method" — so expect to add a payment method for meaningful throughput even while spending free credits.
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown (base rate limits require "a valid payment method") |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | Scaleway account + Organization (IAM permissions required) |
| Est. time to first key | ~10m (full cloud-account signup + IAM key) |
| Trains on your prompts | unknown (EU-hosted per positioning; retention policy not confirmed) |
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.