Free Tier · verified Nov 4, 2026
OpenRouter: Free-model router and zero-cost model variants
The zero-price listing adds HeyGen Voice Turbo (dated October 26), Recursive Flint, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Embed 1B and 8B (dated October 21), all absent from the master. Voice Turbo supports 39 languages and up to 5,000 characters per request and is marked as going away November 30; Flint lists 262K context and the embedding models return 2048- and 4096-dimensional vectors respectively.
PrototypingModel TestingOpenAI-compatible
What you actually get
- Eligibility
- OpenRouter users with access to the relevant API models, subject to account request caps and model availability; own HeyGen key needed for voice clones from the user's account
- Rate and usage limits
- The free-model cap is account-wide. OpenRouter's limit page is authoritative because caps can change with account credit history.
- Models
- openrouter/free, Models ending in :free
- Card requirement
- no
- Regions
- Global
- After the free allowance
- Wait for the daily reset, purchase credits to change account limits, or use paid models.
- Data and privacy catch
- Provider routing and data policies differ by model; use OpenRouter's provider controls for privacy-sensitive workloads.