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LLM 5.2/10

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.

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.

Category LLM Kind Serverless EU LLM inference API Caveats The 1M tokens are a one-time grant, not recurring, and you need a Scaleway cloud account (billing details) to use beyond it. Open-weight models only. Card required Yes Eligibility anyone

Free value score

5.2 / 10
Show the math
Value 4.9/10
value = 0.9 $ one-time
weighted score = 0.7 * 4.9/10
Model Quality 6.1/10
value = 34 artificial_analysis_score
weighted score = 0.2 * 6.1/10
Volume 3/10
value = 1000000 tok/mo
score = 3/10
Request Rate 5.2/10
value = 120 req/min
weighted score = 0.1 * 5.2/10
Access 7/10
value = 7/10
score = 7/10

Key metrics

qwen3.5-397b-a17b 34 Best model
1.0M T/mo Free tokens
120 R/min Requests/min
Yes Commercial use

Models

17 free · 34 total
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

Limitations

  • 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

scaleway europe gdpr open-weight one-time-credit
Open service Source ← All LLM