# Request for NIM Entitlement Verification and NGC API Key

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/request-for-nim-entitlement-verification-and-ngc-api-key/375894>\
**Category:** Models\
**Tags:** connect\_program, nim\
**Created:** [July 7, 2026, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/request-for-nim-entitlement-verification-and-ngc-api-key/375894 "2026-07-07T10:09:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/request-for-nim-entitlement-verification-and-ngc-api-key/375894/1 "2026-07-07T10:09:11Z")

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Our organization is part of the NVIDIA Connect program, and we’re currently evaluating NVIDIA NIM.

We had a few questions regarding access:

- How can we verify whether NIM entitlements are enabled for our NVIDIA Connect organization?

- We don’t currently have an NGC API key. Is this something that should be provided automatically, or is there a separate process to request one?

- Does being a NVIDIA Connect partner automatically include access to NVIDIA NIM, or are additional model-specific entitlements required?

- Does NVIDIA NIM support Vision Language Models (VLMs), or is such support planned?

We’d appreciate any guidance on the required steps to get started with NIM.

Thank you!