Scaleway
Scaleway's EU-sovereign serverless Generative APIs give every new customer 1,000,000 free tokens (plus 60 free audio-transcription minutes) across open models like Qwen, Llama, Mistral and gpt-oss.
- Tokens / month
- 1M
- Requests / min
- 120
- Card required
- Yes
Scaleway scores 5.2/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: One-time 1,000,000 free tokens per new customer (billing starts at token 1,000,001) plus 60 minutes of free audio transcription; some embedding/Whisper models are free. Requires a Scaleway account.
Free value score
5.2 / 10Show the math
Key metrics
Models
17 free · 34 totalLimits may be stale — last re-verified outside this section's freshness window.
| Model | Family | AA | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.5-397b-a17b | Qwen | 32 | free |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b | Qwen | 31.6 | free |
| mistral-medium-3.5-128b | Mistral | 29.9 | free |
| gemma-4-26b-a4b-it | Gemma | 25.7 | free |
| gpt-oss-120b | GPT | 23.8 | free |
| bge-multilingual-gemma2 | Gemma | — | free |
| devstral-2-123b-instruct-2512 | Mistral | — | free |
| gemma-3-27b-it | Gemma | — | free |
| holo2-30b-a3b | Other (H Company) | — | free |
| llama-3.3-70b-instruct | Llama | — | free |
| mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506 | Mistral | — | free |
| pixtral-12b-2409 | Mistral | — | free |
| qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 | Qwen | — | free |
| qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct | Qwen | — | free |
| qwen3-embedding-8b | Qwen | — | free |
| voxtral-small-24b-2507 | Mistral | — | free |
| whisper-large-v3 | Other (OpenAI Whisper) | — | free |
| qwen3.5-122b-a10b | Qwen | 32.3 | paid |
| qwen3.5-35b-a3b | Qwen | 29.3 | paid |
| mistral-large-3-675b-instruct-2512 | Mistral | 16.2 | paid |
| gpt-oss-20b | GPT | 14.9 | paid |
| qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct | Qwen | 7.1 | paid |
| deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b | DeepSeek | — | paid |
| deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b | DeepSeek | — | paid |
| gemma-4-31b-it | Gemma | — | paid |
| llama-3-70b-instruct | Llama | — | paid |
| llama-3-8b-instruct | Llama | — | paid |
| llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct | Llama | — | paid |
| magistral-small-2506 | Mistral | — | paid |
| minimax-m2.5 | Kimi/MiniMax | — | paid |
| mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3 | Mistral | — | paid |
| mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 | Mistral | — | paid |
| mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1 | Mistral | — | paid |
| molmo-72b-0924 | Other (AllenAI) | — | paid |
| qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507 | Qwen | — | paid |
What you get
1,000,000 free tokens for every new customer
60 free minutes of audio transcription; some embedding models free
EU-sovereign, GDPR-compliant, OpenAI-compatible API
Broad catalog: Qwen, Llama 3.3, Mistral, gpt-oss, Pixtral
Gotchas
- 1M token one-time grant
Every new customer receives exactly 1,000,000 free tokens; billing starts at token 1,000,001 and the grant never resets.
- Billing details required
A Scaleway account with billing/payment details on file is required to access the API; the free tier tokens are consumed before any charge occurs.
- No token renewal after grant exhausted
Once the 1M token grant is consumed there is no free tier top-up or monthly reset; continued use requires a paid plan.
Sources
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"The Free Tier allows you to process, without incurring any costs, up to: 1,000,000 tokens for models billed by tokens; 60 minutes of audio transcription for models billed by audio minutes. After reaching this limit, you will be charged per million tokens processed"
https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/generative-apis/faq/ -
"Enjoy a free tier of 1,000,000 tokens. Every new customer gets 1,000,000 free tokens—start paying only from the 1,000,001st token."
https://www.scaleway.com/en/generative-apis/ -
"gpt-oss-120b (high) scores 33 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (averaging 15)."
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-oss-120b -
"Tokens per minute ... gpt-oss-120b | 200k | 1 000k ... Requests per minute ... gpt-oss-120b | 300 | 600 (Payment method validated | Payment method and identity validated)"
https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/organizations-and-projects/additional-content/organization-quotas/
