Affordable Open Source LLMs - NEBIUS AI Studio

Last week, I stumbled upon Nebius AI Studio (https://studio.nebius.com/) by chance, as it has recently become available as an option in CLINE.Nebius hosts, I believe, in Finland and has its headquarters in Amsterdam – so, EU-based.

A little while ago, I set up a workflow with n8n using Nebius as the LLM provider. It's working great in the initial steps.

What you'll need:

An API key from Nebius (see link above). (It includes $1 starting credit for testing.)
In n8n, create a credential and select "OpenAI".
In the next window, top left, give it a name (e.g., "Nebius LLMs"). Under "Connections," enter your API Key and the Base URL: https://api.studio.nebius.ai/v1/
If you want to connect a Chat Model to an Agent Node, just select the "OpenAI Chat Model" and use the Nebius credentials you created earlier. You can then simply choose the model you want from the list.

So far, I've only used the Qwen3-30B-A3B model. I used it with CLINE to check a larger WordPress plugin with quite a bit of data, and I've also run a few chats in n8n. It has cost me 2 cents so far 🤣

A few pictures of my "installation" are attached.

Have fun! Maybe you can share your experiences.

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