# OpenRouter: Free :free model variants — 50 requests/day (1,000/day after buying 10 credits), 20 RPM

- Status: live
- Category: LLM APIs
- Offer type: free tier
- 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
- Claim URL: https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/free
- Source URL: https://openrouter.ai/pricing
- Last verified: 2026-10-19T06:09:26-04:00 (Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET), HTTP 200

> Source quote (verbatim from the source page):
> "Free models are capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day"

Page: https://perq.sh/offers/openrouter-free-models