Bot farms are ruining build.nvidia.com. Please save this platform. (Some practical fixes)

AI & Data Science NVIDIA NIM Access/Accounts
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Hi NVIDIA team,

I’m posting this because I genuinely love build.nvidia.com, but right now, bot farms and script abusers are making it completely unusable for real developers.

Whenever new high-demand models drop (like GLM 5.1, GLM 4.7, or the Kimi series), the queues become absolutely insane. It’s obvious people are spinning up hundreds of fake email accounts with scripts to hoard resources, which completely crowds out genuine devs who are just trying to build and test applications.

I really want this platform to survive. Here are a few practical fixes the community desperately needs ASAP:

1. Strict Daily Quotas (RPD) on Hot Models Hard cap popular models at roughly 2,000 requests per day per user. Real dev testing rarely hits this, but it instantly kills script abuse.

2. Tighter Global RPM Limits Set a global 5 to 10 Requests Per Minute limit to stop single free accounts from flooding the servers with concurrent calls.

3. Strict Phone Verification (The Root Fix) Please enforce a rule where one phone number can be bound to a maximum of 1 (or at most 3) accounts. For any normal developer, the quota provided to a single account is more than enough. Right now, registering 100 dummy emails is way too easy. Adding this SMS constraint fixes the mass account creation problem overnight without hurting real users.

4. IP-Based Throttling Enforce rate limits at the IP level to stop abusers from running massive scripts from a single server under 50 different accounts.

5. Consider a Lightweight Paid Tier Let devs pay a small amount ($5-$10) in a pay-as-you-go system to escape the congested free tier. It filters out the free-loaders and actually helps you cover server costs.

Why I care so much about this: With the current explosion of AI Agent development, finding a stable and reliable API platform is incredibly difficult. build.nvidia.com has been an absolute lifeline for mainstream developers like us.

I sincerely hope this platform operates for the long term. Whether you guys eventually transition it into a paid ecosystem (like OpenRouter) or keep it running as a free community resource, I just want it to survive and remain usable.

I am extremely passionate about this, which is exactly why I’m determined to see it fixed. I will keep following up, bumping this thread, and re-posting this feedback if necessary until the team takes concrete steps to address the bot issue. Please don’t let the bots win. Hope you can pass this to the platform admins.

Thanks, A dedicated developer

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Hi eess51559,

Really appreciate the sentiment and your suggestions.

I will be sure to share this post with the build.nvidia.com team and thanks for posting on the forums!

Best,

Aharpster

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Hi Aharpster,

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to read it and pass it along to the team!

Honestly, I rely on [build.nvidia.com](http://build.nvidia.com) so much for my day-to-day work, and it’s been a massive help. I just really want to see the platform stay healthy and usable for everyone in the long run.

Appreciate you guys listening to the community!

Cheers, A developer

Aharpster <notifications@nvidia.discoursemail.com> 于2026年5月1日周五 00:02写道：

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The IP Based throttling is a good choice, the rest however is a big situation that would only cause more problems. strict daily quota’s only end up causing the service to be worse in the long run… the Global RPM Limit down from the 40 RPM would be worse because some of us, have to reroll our prompts till things finally work… strict Phone verification would work, but it’s already pretty strict, because people are already buying burner phones for this.. if there was a paid tier, it would be better than the free tier already given, not making the current free tier the Paid tier." and yes, IP Based Throttling is a thing that needs to happen… but it can cause false positives and lead to surveillance. not to mention you’re talking about a trillion dollar company… they know better than you. they’ve been doing this longer. I myself moved away from OpenRouter and other Free Services because of aggressive pricing situations and a little thing called Enshittification.

A Little reading for you

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  1. IP throttling is a bad choice. If these abusers really can spin up “hundreds of fake email accounts” it’s comically easy for them to spin up VPN or proxy too, it’s easier to set up proxy than registering hundreds of accounts, even. It hurts legitimate users who just happened to share neighbourhood with someone in the list than it hurts abusers.
  2. There’s really no point in PAYG system if it’s billed per mtok, many serverless providers like Fireworks or Together does that, which I think Nvidia even linked in their partner section on each model demo. If I pay I’d rather a subscription product which is rarer, and Nvidia should ensure nothing is logged unlike this existing NIM free API which is logged.
  3. 5 RPM is too severe, I agree with Jack that some of us send some prompts for testing in concurrency to compare and see which works before committing. And some prototype do test concurrency to test serving multiple users, like chatbot app. The 40 RPM limit is low enough.
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Fully agree and support all proposed actions

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disagree

they can’t charge people because its conflikt of interest with data ceterr that buy their hard ware man

click deploy on build nvidia and they have paiddata center if you want ot pay its not nvidias responsibility dont drag us down for your own pleasure man