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vLLM Model-Free NIM (Experimental)
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NVIDIA
vLLM Model-Free NIM (Experimental)

Model-Free NIM provides container software for serving compatible, customer-provided models through standard inference APIs. No model artifacts are bundled in the container.

Model-Free NIM Container Overview

Description:

Model-Free NIM provides container software for serving compatible, customer-provided models through standard inference APIs. No model artifacts are bundled in the container.

The container components are for demonstration purposes and not for production usage.

License/Terms of Use:

GOVERNING TERMS: The NIM container is governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and the Product-Specific Terms for NVIDIA AI Products.

No model weights, checkpoints, or model artifacts are included or distributed with this container.

Customer-provided model artifacts are governed by their applicable license terms.

You are responsible for ensuring that your use of customer-provided models complies with all applicable laws and license terms.

Deployment Geography:

Global

Release Date:

NGC 10/14/2026 via link

Program Classes:

The Model-Free NIM Container accepts customer-provided compatible models at runtime.

Model Name & LinkUse CaseHow to Pull the Model
Customer-provided compatible modelsRun compatible models with the Model-Free NIM runtimeProvided by the customer at runtime

Deployment Details:

The container provides inference APIs for customer-provided compatible models, including /v1/models and /v1/chat/completions.

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

Reference(s):

Container Version(s):

2.1.5

Security Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)

Please review the Security Scanning tab on NGC to view the latest security scan results. For certain open-source vulnerabilities listed in the scan results, NVIDIA provides a response in the form of a Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) document. The VEX information can be reviewed and downloaded from the Security Scanning tab.

Ethical Considerations:

NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. Developers should work with their internal developer team to ensure these software components meet requirements for the relevant industry and use case and address unforeseen product misuse.

Please report quality, risk, security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI Concerns here.

Get Help

Getting started with the NIM

Deploying and integrating the NIM is straightforward thanks to our industry standard APIs. Visit the NVIDIA NIM for LLM and VLM Documentation for release documentation, deployment guides and more.

NVIDIA Developer Community Forum

Get access to community knowledge base articles and support cases (NVIDIA Developer Forums).

Publisher
NVIDIA
Latest Tag2.1.6-variant-kimi-k3.1-pro
UpdatedNovember 5, 2026 UTC
Compressed Size13.34 GB
Multinode SupportNo
Multi-Arch SupportYes

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