Nscale

Nscale is an AI/GPU cloud that pairs serverless, OpenAI-compatible inference with on-demand GPU compute. The Serverless Inference API serves open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, GPT OSS, Mistral, Flux) at https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1 with pay-per-token billing, while the platform API provisions GPU clusters, compute instances, networks, and storage.

Nscale publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Completions API, Embeddings API, Images API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, GPU, Inference, Serverless, and Cloud Compute.

The Nscale catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Nscale’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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29.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Artificial Intelligence GPU Inference Serverless Cloud Compute Real-Time

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 29.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Hugging Face Hub Organisations	builds-on	51.7	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface reaches extended

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Nscale Completions API

OpenAI-compatible legacy text completions.

Nscale Embeddings API

Vector embeddings of text input.

Nscale Images API

Text-to-image generation.

Nscale Models API

Model catalog discovery.

Nscale Chat Completions API

OpenAI-compatible chat completions.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Nscale Serverless Inference Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nscale Serverless Inference Chat Completions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nscale Serverless Inference Chat Embeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nscale Serverless Inference Chat Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nscale Serverless Inference Chat Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nscale Serverless Inference API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Nscale MCP Server

Remote MCP server at docs.nscale.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Nscale API pricing

Not yet checked against Nscale's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from www.nscale.com/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Serverless Inference (Pay-as-you-go) usage	—
GPU Compute and Clusters usage	—
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Requests Per Minute (RPM): see provider documentation requests
Tokens Per Minute (TPM): see provider documentation tokens
Concurrent Requests: see provider documentation concurrency

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Nscale's documentation. All 4 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Nscale Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Nscale Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Nscale

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Nscale Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Nscale Chat Completions Streaming (HTTP + SSE)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Nscale's **chat completion streaming** surface. Nscale does not publish a WebSocket API. The only asynchronous / event-style transport documented for...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Nscale — asyncapi rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Nscale Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nscale Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Nscale Agentic Access

6 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nscale/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Nscale
kind: company
description: Nscale is an AI/GPU cloud that pairs serverless, OpenAI-compatible inference with on-demand GPU compute. The
  Serverless Inference API serves open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, GPT OSS, Mistral, Flux) at https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
  with pay-per-token billing, while the platform API provisions GPU clusters, compute instances, networks, and storage.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/nscale.png
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- GPU
- Inference
- Serverless
- Cloud Compute
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- AI
- GPU
- Inference
- Serverless
- Cloud Compute
- Real-Time
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: nscale:nscale-completions-api
  name: Nscale Completions API
  description: OpenAI-compatible legacy text completions.
  humanURL: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  baseURL: https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
  tags:
  - Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nscale-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/api-reference
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nscale-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/nscale.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/compute/overview
- aid: nscale:nscale-embeddings-api
  name: Nscale Embeddings API
  description: Vector embeddings of text input.
  humanURL: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  baseURL: https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nscale-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/api-reference
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nscale-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/nscale.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/compute/overview
- aid: nscale:nscale-images-api
  name: Nscale Images API
  description: Text-to-image generation.
  humanURL: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  baseURL: https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nscale-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/api-reference
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nscale-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/nscale.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/compute/overview
- aid: nscale:nscale-models-api
  name: Nscale Models API
  description: Model catalog discovery.
  humanURL: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  baseURL: https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nscale-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/api-reference
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nscale-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/nscale.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/compute/overview
- aid: nscale:nscale-chat-completions-api
  name: Nscale Chat Completions API
  description: OpenAI-compatible chat completions.
  humanURL: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  baseURL: https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nscale-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/inference/serverless-models/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/api-reference
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nscale-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/nscale.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nscale.com/docs/compute/overview
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/nscale-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nscale-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nscale-authentication.yml
- url: https://www.nscale.com/blog
  type: Blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nscale
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nscale.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.nscale.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/nscale-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/nscale-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/nscale-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Nscale API — frequently asked questions

Does Nscale have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Nscale, including Nscale Completions API, Nscale Embeddings API and Nscale Images API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Nscale API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Nscale, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Nscale API?

Nscale uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Nscale Authentication.

How much does the Nscale API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Nscale, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Nscale have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Nscale: Remote MCP server at docs.nscale.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

Is the Nscale API ready for AI agents?

Nscale has a Kin Score of 29.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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