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Nscale gives new users $5 in free credit to try GLM-5.3

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UK AI cloud provider Nscale gives every new user $5 of free credit. Claim it in the console after signing up and call the newly added GLM-5.3 through an OpenAI-compatible API, at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens.

$5 free credit for new users, usable on GLM-5.3

Eligibility：
New Nscale accounts, once per user; sign-up currently requires a Google account
Renewal terms：
After the free credit is used, add a card and top up (minimum $5), billed per token
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The briefing

Nscale is a UK-based AI cloud provider, and its serverless inference platform has just added Z.ai's GLM-5.3. New users can claim $5 of free credit after signing up, which is a handy way to try GLM-5.3.

What you get

  • Every new user can claim $5 of free credit once, usable on Nscale Serverless Inference.
  • GLM-5.3 costs $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, paid from that credit. The catalog also includes cheaper models such as Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.
  • The API is OpenAI-compatible, so coding tools and clients that accept a custom OpenAI endpoint can connect to it.
  • Once the free credit runs out, you need to add a card and top up, with a minimum of $5 per purchase.

How to claim

  1. Open the Nscale Console and sign up with your Google account.
  2. Claim the $5 free credit on the console home page.
  3. Create an API key under Settings, Service Tokens.
  4. Set the base URL to https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1, pick GLM 5.3 as the model, and start making requests.

Models and pricing are listed in the Nscale model catalog, and setup steps are in the quickstart guide.

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