Scaleway Generative APIs free tier
Scaleway Free API tier
The catch: The 1M free tokens are a small allowance (not stated as monthly), and rate limits only apply once a valid payment method is registered (Scaleway rate-limits page).
| Access | Free API tier |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Generative APIs - Serverless free tier: first 1,000,000 tokens plus 60 minutes of audio transcription; billed from token 1,000,001 (applied to the most expensive tokens first). Covers all serverless models. Rate limits (payment method validated): 200k tokens/min and 300 requests/min per model, 100 concurrent requests; with identity also validated: 400k-2,000k tokens/min (2,000k for mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506) and 600 requests/min. Batches API has no rate limit. |
| Modality | text, code, audio, embeddings |
| Credit card | Required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | No |
| Licence or terms | Scaleway terms + per-model licence (Apache 2.0 for mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506) |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens |
| Model id | mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506 |
| Base URL | https://api.scaleway.ai/v1 |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use Generative APIs models
It speaks the OpenAI API at https://api.scaleway.ai/v1, so the OpenAI SDK you already use works once you change the base URL and key.
curl https://api.scaleway.ai/v1/chat/completions -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'I want to use the free AI model "Generative APIs models" from Scaleway (model id: mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506) in my project. Please: 1. Check the provider docs and give me the exact steps to get a free API key. 2. Give me a minimal working example that reads the key from an environment variable. 3. Tell me the real free limits and any catch (commercial use, card, data use). Listed limits: First 1M tokens and 60 audio minutes. 4. If the same provider has a more generous free option, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- The 1M free tokens are a small allowance (not stated as monthly), and rate limits only apply once a valid payment method is registered (Scaleway rate-limits page).
- Paid cloud service; Generative APIs FAQ: 'you need to comply with model licenses when using Generative APIs - Serverless'. mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506 is Apache 2.0 per the Supported models page.
- Free tiers are shared capacity: treat the limits as a ceiling, not a promise, and keep a paid fallback.
Questions
Is Scaleway Generative APIs free tier free?
Yes. Scaleway offers it as free api tier, with these limits: First 1M tokens and 60 audio minutes.
Can I use Scaleway Generative APIs free tier commercially?
Yes, under Scaleway terms + per-model licence (Apache 2.0 for mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506). Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Scaleway Generative APIs free tier?
It speaks the OpenAI API at https://api.scaleway.ai/v1, so the OpenAI SDK you already use works once you change the base URL and key.
Source: scaleway.com/en/docs/generative-apis/faq/, checked 2 Oct 2026.