Anyone else unable to access NVIDIA NIM due to region-locked phone verification?

Posted by The404Engineer@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 1 comments

Tried using NVIDIA’s NIM platform and couldn’t get past API key creation because phone verification isn’t supported in my region.

They mention “expanding worldwide availability,” but right now there’s no fallback option (even limited access would help).

Curious how others outside supported regions are handling this are you waiting, self-hosting alternatives, or using other inference APIs?

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cryyingboy@reddit

This isnt really an email thing but I hit the same wall with region locked verification on a different platform last year. ended up self hosting most of my inference stuff anyway tbh. once you get the routing and model loading config right locally its honestly faster than waiting on API access. took me like 2 weeks to match the performance I was getting from their hosted version.