As recorded at collection: OpenRouter, 50 free daily calls to multiple AI models
As recorded at collection: OpenRouter, an API service that lets you use AI models from multiple companies in one place, provides up to 50 calls per day to free models. All free models share the same limit, and you can make up to 20 calls per minute. A lifetime cumulative top-up of $10 increases the daily limit to 1,000 calls.
- What you get
- 50 free daily calls to multiple AI models · 1,000 calls per day after a lifetime cumulative top-up of $10
- Price
- Free use of free models · A lifetime cumulative top-up of $10 is required to increase the daily limit to 1,000 calls
- Valid until
- To be confirmed
- Requirements
- 20 calls per minute · 50 calls per day · All free models share the same limit · 1,000 calls per day after a lifetime cumulative top-up of $10
Details
OpenRouter is a service that lets you use AI models from multiple companies through a single interface. Models with free at the end of their name can be called for free. Free models include Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct, Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 405B, Qwen3 Coder, Qwen3 Next 80B, openai/gpt-oss-20b, the Google Gemma 4 family, the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family (from nano to ultra at 550B scale), Cohere North Mini Code, poolside Laguna, and others.
After signing up for OpenRouter, obtain an API key (an authentication string required to use the service). Specify a free model whose name ends in free when making a call. The default limit is 20 calls per minute and 50 calls per day. A lifetime cumulative top-up of $10 increases the daily limit to 1,000 calls.
Free models do not each have a separate limit. Instead, all free models share a single usage limit. Calls are counted together even when you switch between multiple free models, and the default daily limit is 50 calls in total.
Sources and verification history
- Collection channel
- gh/free-llm
- Collected at
- July 25, 2026, 16:05 KST
- First published
- Updated
- Source
- openrouter.ai
- Updates
- July 26 23:48 · Reclassified due to a criteria change
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- OpenRouter: 50 free requests per day / OpenRouter, 50 free daily calls to multiple AI models