TypeTime-limited7Free Tier123New User28Free Only7
AccessAPI57Desktop37CLI22Web87App21
TagCoding29Agents30Work26Chat30Image31Video24Audio23Search16Embedded3Platforms21OCR4Scraping6Document Parsing6TTS8Compute2

OpenRouter

· Verified 2026-10-31
ChatPlatforms
Provider
OpenRouter
Access
API
Unified API gateway with hundreds of models incl. many :free variants

Free Tier

  • Quota
    :free models: 20 req/min; 50/day before top-up, 1,000/day after $10 purchased
    Cycle
    Daily
    Free model pool callable within rate limits — no top-up required to get started

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