NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) — Free API

What is NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL is a 12B-parameter multimodal reasoning model available free on OpenRouter. Uses a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture for better throughput and lower latency. Handles text and multi-image document inputs with 128K context. Optimized for optical character recognition (OCR), chart reasoning, and multimodal comprehension. Supports long-form video via Efficient Video Sampling (EVS). Achieves ~74 average across MMMU, MathVista, AI2D, OCRBench, ChartQA, DocVQA, and Video-MME. Open-weights under NVIDIA license. Also available on NVIDIA NIM. OpenAI-compatible. Free tier: 200 RPD.

NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) API Code Example

Paste your API key and run. See the config generator for Claude Code, Cursor, and more tools.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const openai = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
});

const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
  model: "nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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