OpenRouter Free Models Tracker

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OpenRouter Free Models Tracker

OpenRouter hosts a broad model ecosystem with many options, but the key issue is not just "there are free models", it's which free models fit this use case today.

This page is a practical tracker focused on:

  • Coding and engineering-related use
  • Roleplay / chat scenario prompts
  • JSON and structured output use cases
  • Long-context use cases

The list is generated from OpenRouter model metadata and filtered by free pricing (input and output). Data refresh can be scheduled by the project scheduler for automatic updates.

Last update

2026-05-11T08:40:50.947Z

Coding

Model Provider Context Length Price (prompt/completion) Note
Owl Alpha Unknown 1048756 0/0 Owl Alpha is a high-performance foundation model designed for agentic workloads. Natively supports tool use, and long-co
inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T (free) Unknown 262144 0/0 Ring-2.6-1T is a 1T-parameter-scale thinking model with 63B active parameters, built for real-world agent workflows that
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free) Unknown 262144 0/0 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable respo
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) Unknown 262000 0/0 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is opt
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) Unknown 256000 0/0 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is a small language MoE model with highest compute efficiency and accuracy for developers
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free) Unknown 196608 0/0 MiniMax-M2.5 is a SOTA large language model designed for real-world productivity. Trained in a diverse range of complex
Baidu Qianfan: CoBuddy (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 CoBuddy is a code generation model from Baidu, optimized for coding tasks and AI Agent workflows. It features high infer
Poolside: Laguna XS.2 (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Laguna XS.2 is the second-generation model in the XS size class from Poolside, their efficient co
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Laguna M.1 is the flagship coding agent model from Poolside, optimized for complex software engin

Roleplay

Model Provider Context Length Price (prompt/completion) Note
Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, m

JSON

Model Provider Context Length Price (prompt/completion) Note
Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Unknown 262144 0/0 Gemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output.
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) Unknown 262000 0/0 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is opt
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) Unknown 256000 0/0 NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B open multimodal model designed to function as a perception and context sub-age
Poolside: Laguna XS.2 (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Laguna XS.2 is the second-generation model in the XS size class from Poolside, their efficient co
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Laguna M.1 is the flagship coding agent model from Poolside, optimized for complex software engin

Long Context

Model Provider Context Length Price (prompt/completion) Note
Owl Alpha Unknown 1048756 0/0 Owl Alpha is a high-performance foundation model designed for agentic workloads. Natively supports tool use, and long-co
Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Unknown 262144 0/0 Gemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output.
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free) Unknown 262144 0/0 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable respo
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) Unknown 262000 0/0 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is opt
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) Unknown 256000 0/0 NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B open multimodal model designed to function as a perception and context sub-age
Poolside: Laguna XS.2 (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Laguna XS.2 is the second-generation model in the XS size class from Poolside, their efficient co
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Laguna M.1 is the flagship coding agent model from Poolside, optimized for complex software engin
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-rea
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Llama 3.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual large language model, optimized for advanced natural language process
Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) Unknown 131072 0/0 Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, m
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) Unknown 128000 0/0 NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free) Unknown 128000 0/0 NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 is a large language model (LLM) trained from scratch by NVIDIA, and designed as a unified mod
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) Unknown 32768 0/0 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is a lightweight reasoning-focused model optimized for agentic tasks, data extraction, and RAG—whil