As recorded at collection: OpenRouter, 50 free daily calls to multiple AI models
As recorded at collection: OpenRouter, a service for using AI models from multiple companies in one place, offers a free tier that allows up to 20 requests per minute and 50 requests per day for free models. All free models share a single limit, so requests are combined even when using multiple models alternately.
- What you get
- 50 free uses of multiple AI models per day, up to 1,000 per day after accumulating $10 in credits
- Price
- Free use of free models, increased to up to 1,000 per day after accumulating $10 in credits over the lifetime of the account
- Valid until
- To be confirmed
- Requirements
- Requests are combined across all free models, limit of 20 per minute and 50 per day, up to 1,000 per day after accumulating $10 in credits over the lifetime of the account
Details
OpenRouter is a service that lets you choose and use AI models from multiple companies in one place. Models included in the free tier can be used without separate fees, with a limit of 20 requests per minute and 50 per day.
Sign up for OpenRouter and obtain an API key, the authentication string required to use the service, to call free models. Models eligible for free use have the label free after their name. These models include Cohere North Mini Code, Ling 3.0 Flash, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (Reasoning), NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety, Poolside Laguna M.1, Poolside Laguna S 2.1, Poolside Laguna XS 2.1, Google Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, Google Gemma 4 31B IT, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL, and NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2.
Each free model does not have a separate limit, and all free models share a single common limit. Even when using multiple models alternately, the number of daily requests is combined. Accounts with a lifetime accumulated credit purchase of $10 can make up to 1,000 requests per day.
Sources and verification history
- Collection channel
- gh/free-llm
- Collected at
- July 26, 2026, 22:14 KST
- First published
- Updated
- Source
- openrouter.ai
- Main post
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