OpenRouter: Free :free model variants — 50 requests/day (1,000/day after buying 10 credits), 20 RPM
Live free tier
The receipt
“Free models are capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day”Verbatim from openrouter.ai/pricing, checked (HTTP 200).
- Credit value
- Free :free model variants — 50 requests/day (1,000/day after buying 10 credits), 20 RPM
- Eligibility
- Any OpenRouter account
- How to claim
- Use model IDs ending in :free or openrouter/free
- Category
- LLM APIs
- Offer type
- Free tiers
- Status
- Live as of the last check
- Source
- https://openrouter.ai/pricing
- Last verified
- · HTTP 200
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