Yes. As of 2026-09-27, OpenRouter has 3 free API tier offers we track: OpenRouter :free model variants, OpenRouter for Startups, Space Bunny Alpha (stealth preview); 3 other offers from OpenRouter are listed below.
Every offer from OpenRouter in our catalog, each with the date it was last verified against the provider's own page. "No" and "ended" are answers too, so they stay listed.
| Offer | Provider | Status | What it offers | Expiry | Verified | Source | Caveats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter :free model variants | OpenRouter | available | Rotating set of :free model variants — 17 of 458 models carried a :free suffix at $0 prompt and completion when read from openrouter.ai/api/v1/models on 2026-09-27: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 (nano-omni-30b r… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-27 | source | ROSTER MOVED 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-27: 20 of 443 became 17 of 458. Gone: InclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash VL, Nex-AGI N2.5 mini and pro, Z.ai GLM-5.2. New: Qwen 3.8 27B. The limits page (read via a text-rendering route; it is… |
| OpenRouter for Startups | OpenRouter | available | Up to $3,000 in universal inference credits, spendable across OpenRouter's frontier and open model catalog rather than scoped to one vendor, plus 0% processing fees for 12 months (no platform markup… | limited-time, no date | 2026-08-28 | source | NOT open access, and the gate is the main thing to read: eligibility requires a pre-Series B venture-backed startup, building an AI-native product full-time, REFERRED BY AN APPROVED OPENROUTER PARTNER, with a public com… |
| Space Bunny Alpha (stealth preview) | OpenRouter (anonymous third-party provider) | available | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on stealth/space-bunny-alpha during a limited-time anonymous preview: a model with adjustable reasoning, strong coding, and native multimodal input (text, image… | limited-time, no date | 2026-09-27 | source | A stealth preview: the provider is anonymous and states no end date. The previous stealth preview on this row's pattern (Ox Alpha, afr-0044) ran about a week and was then revealed as a paid model. Prompts and completion… |
Discounts, subscriptions, applications, and offers that ended or do not exist. They are not a free API tier, and they are listed so nothing is hidden.
| Offer | Provider | Status | What it offers | Expiry | Verified | Source | Caveats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter — $10 credits unlock 1000 free requests/day | OpenRouter | available | Purchasing at least 10 credits (~$10, one-off) raises the daily cap on :free model variants from 50 to 1000 requests/day. The per-minute limit is 20 RPM either way. The credits are yours to spend on… | no stated expiry | 2026-08-24 | source | Not free — it requires a real $10 purchase, which is why it is deal_type spend_unlock and not a free row; the underlying 50/day free tier (afr-0010) needs no spend. OpenRouter's docs state the threshold as "at least 10… |
| OpenRouter — 50% off GPT-5.6 Sol routes | OpenRouter (routing OpenAI models) | available | 50% off OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol and Sol Pro when routed through OpenRouter: $2/M input and $10/M output, carrying an explicit “50% off” label on the provider page. The batch variants (openai/gpt-5.6-sol:b… | limited-time, no date | 2026-09-08 | source | Not free — a discount on paid inference. NOT A DUPLICATE OF afr-0050: that row is OpenAI's own promotional pricing at $4/M in and $20/M out, guaranteed at least through 2026-11-21; this is OpenRouter's separate routing… |
| Ox Alpha (stealth preview) | OpenRouter (anonymous third-party provider) | ended | Preview ended on or about 2026-08-26, within a day of the predicted 2026-08-27. The model stealth/ox-alpha is no longer listed at all on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (417 models returned, zero occur… | expires 2026-08-26 | 2026-09-08 | source | — |