Free models
Models you can use without paying anyone — 42 of them, each with the allowance its seller published.
A model somebody will run for you at no charge. The allowance is the entry: thirty requests a minute is generous for a side project and nothing at all for a product, and which it is depends on what you are building.
- Dots3-Note1 sellingOpenRouter free until 2026-09-30
- GLM 5.2Z.ai5th of 60· 57 boards24 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- GPT OSS 120BOpenAI69th of 290· 33 boards29 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a dayCerebras 5 requests a minute, 30K tokens a minute, 1M a day
- GPT OSS 20BOpenAI21st of 61· 17 boards20 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a day
- Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle15th of 109· 42 boards12 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTSGoogle2 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle3rd of 105· 3 boards9 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle1st of 8· 55 boards11 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle5th of 262· 47 boards10 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live PreviewGoogle8th of 161 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle98th of 402· 31 boards9 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle2nd of 46· 66 boards12 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle59th of 402· 28 boards10 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.5 Live TranslateGoogle1 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle6th of 313· 49 boards11 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle3rd of 313· 45 boards11 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini Embedding 2Google4 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle48th of 112· 10 boards7 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Gemma 4 31BGoogle37th of 123· 17 boards15 sellingOpenRouter allowance not publishedCerebras 5 requests a minute, 30K tokens a minute, 1M a day
- InklingThinking Machines Lab55th of 313· 36 boards12 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Inkling SmallThinking Machines Lab51st of 313· 21 boards8 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- LFM2.5 2.6B217th of 3021 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Laguna S 2.1Poolside4 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Laguna XS 2.1Poolside3 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Ling 3.0 Flash FinInclusionAI2 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Llama Prompt Guard 2 22MMeta1 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 14,400 a day; 15K tokens a minute, 500K a day
- Llama Prompt Guard 2 86MMeta1 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 14,400 a day; 15K tokens a minute, 500K a day
- Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA155th of 302· 8 boards7 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA33rd of 161· 24 boards13 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nemotron 3.5 Content SafetyNVIDIA2 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA154th of 302· 3 boards6 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nex-N2.5-ProNEX AGI1 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nex-N2.5-miniNEX AGI1 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- North Mini CodeCohere193rd of 302· 3 boards2 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Orpheus Arabic SaudiCanopy Labs1 sellingGroq 10 requests a minute, 100 a day; 1.2K tokens a minute, 3.6K a day
- Orpheus V1 EnglishCanopy Labs1 sellingGroq 10 requests a minute, 100 a day; 1.2K tokens a minute, 3.6K a day
- Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba60th of 290· 14 boards12 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a day
- Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba12th of 121· 8 boards12 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 2M a day
- Whisper Large V3 TurboOpenAI5 sellingGroq 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day
- Whisper Large v3OpenAI47th of 652 sellingGroq 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day
- gpt-oss-safeguard-20bOpenAI6 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a day
- nemotron-3-nano-omni165th of 1843 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
Free every day, all of them together
38,000 requests · 5,807,200 tokens
Added from what 13 of these sellers state as a figure. Another 31 publish no ceiling at all, so nothing of theirs is in the total.
Figures read 2026-09-16. Everything that is free.