Free models on OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides one API for hundreds of models. This page lists the models currently available at no token cost.

Updated: July 26, 2026 at 07:22 AM

18 models
🚀 3 powerful
⚖️ 7 balanced
⚡ 8 lightweight

Pick a model for your task

Quick recommendations from the current catalog. Selected scenario: Cursor / Cline.

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№ Model ↕ Provider ↕ Parameters ↕ Context ↕
1 ⚡ Ling-3.0-flash (free) OpenRouter ? 262K Open
2 ⚡ Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) OpenRouter ? 262K Open
3 ⚡ Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free) OpenRouter ? 262K Open
4 ⚡ Cohere: North Mini Code (free) OpenRouter ? 256K Open
5 ⚖️ NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) OpenRouter ? 128K Open
6 🚀 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) OpenRouter 550B 1.0M Open
7 ⚖️ NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) OpenRouter 30B 256K Open
8 ⚡ Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) OpenRouter ? 262K Open
9 ⚖️ Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) OpenRouter 26B 262K Open
10 ⚖️ Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) OpenRouter 31B 262K Open
11 🚀 Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview OpenRouter ? 1.0M Open
12 ⚡ Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview OpenRouter ? 1.0M Open
13 🚀 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) OpenRouter 120B 262K Open
14 ⚡ Free Models Router OpenRouter ? 200K Open
15 ⚖️ NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) OpenRouter 30B 256K Open
16 ⚖️ NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) OpenRouter 12B 128K Open
17 ⚡ NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free) OpenRouter 9B 128K Open
18 ⚖️ OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (free) OpenRouter 20B 131K Open