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title: NVIDIA NIM provider setup
description: Connect NVIDIA API Catalog and NIM microservice credentials.
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Use an NVIDIA API Catalog or NIM credential when NVIDIA NIM is available in the dashboard.

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## Configuration

- Canonical provider ID: `nvidia_nim`
- Accepted aliases: `nvidia` and `nim`
- Secret kind: `api_key`

Open **Provider Credentials** in the dashboard and select NVIDIA NIM. Enter the credentials and configuration requested by the form.

Manage provider credentials in the Zorveus dashboard under **Provider Credentials**. Application code does not call a provider-credential API. Use a Zorveus API key for inference, not the upstream provider secret.

Hosted NVIDIA endpoints and self-hosted NIM deployments can require different configuration. The dashboard form lists the supported configuration fields. Do not infer endpoint configuration from the model name.