Classificações de modelos atualizadas com base em dados reais de uso.
Os modelos são classificados pelo total de tokens de prompt e de resposta processados pela API do OpenRouter nos últimos 7 dias. Exibindo os 16 melhores modelos. As classificações medem o uso no OpenRouter e refletem a adoção, não a qualidade do modelo ou o desempenho em testes de referência.
Os modelos de IA gratuitos mais usados estão classificados abaixo pelo uso real no OpenRouter na última semana, e todos eles têm preço de US$ 0 para prompts. Os melhores modelos atualmente são Nemotron 3 Ultra (free), Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) e Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free). Os modelos gratuitos permitem criar protótipos, aprender e executar projetos paralelos com um orçamento quase nulo, e o OpenRouter continua ampliando a capacidade gratuita ao integrar provedores e cobrir os custos diretamente. Se você preferir não escolher, openrouter/free encaminha cada solicitação para um modelo gratuito adequado a ela.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open frontier-reasoning and orchestration model from NVIDIA, with 55B active parameters out of 550B total (MoE). Built on a hybrid Transformer-Mamba mixture-of-experts architecture, it supports text input and output with a context window of up to 1M tokens. It is suited for long-running agentic workflows, including agent orchestration, coding agents, deep research, and complex enterprise tasks.
It is particularly strong at multi-step reasoning and planning, with high-throughput inference designed for high-volume agent pipelines. It is part of the NVIDIA Nemotron family of open models for agentic AI.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open multimodal mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 12B active parameters out of 120B total. It takes text, images, documents, GUI screenshots, and video as input and returns text, and is built for long-running agents that combine visual understanding with reasoning and tool use.
It uses a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture with multi-token prediction and supports a 1M-token context. Typical uses include document intelligence, web research, coding validation, customer service, and video understanding. Reasoning is on by default and can be turned off or given a token budget.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that benefit from domain-specific customization.

Dots3-Note Preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Dots Studio, with 16B active parameters out of 280B total. It is the lightest model in the Dots 3 family and is suited for reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, long-context processing, and multi-step agent workflows.
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversational applications. Its native image and audio understanding supports multimodal analysis alongside text.

North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family. A sparse mixture-of-experts model with 30B total parameters and 3B active, it is optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks, and is trained to generalize across agent harnesses such as OpenCode and SWE-Agent.
It offers a 256K-token context window with up to 64K tokens of output, supports interleaved reasoning and tool use via JSON schema, and is released open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. Its small active-parameter footprint enables low-latency inference, including on local hardware.
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.
NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B open multimodal model designed to function as a perception and context sub-agent in enterprise agent systems. It accepts text, image, video, and audio inputs and produces text output, enabling agents to perceive and reason across modalities in a single inference loop.
Built on a hybrid MoE Transformer-Mamba architecture with Conv3D video layers and Efficient Video Sampling (EVS), it delivers approximately 2× higher throughput and 2.5× lower compute for video reasoning versus separate vision + speech pipelines. It supports up to 300K context length and a 16,384 reasoning budget, with extended thinking enabled via reasoning.enabled on OpenRouter.

Xing4.0-29B-A4B is an open-weight mixture-of-experts language model from China Telecom's AI team (TeleAI) and the successor to the TeleChat series. It has 29B total parameters with 4B active per token and a native 256K-token context window. It was trained entirely on Ascend NPUs with the MindSpore framework and is tuned for complex engineering and agent work: tool calling, multi-step planning, and long-context execution. Reasoning is on by default and can be turned off.
Flint is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Recursive, with about 2.5B active parameters out of 40B total, built by Recursive's autoresearch system Eureka Machine for coding agents. It is suited for investigating codebases, fixing bugs, implementing features, and writing tests.
Span-01 Lite is the free, lighter tier of Span-01, a behavior scoring model from Respan. It returns, for each plain-language behavior you define, the probability that the behavior is present in a conversation span, and is suited for high-volume evaluation and monitoring where cost matters more than peak accuracy.

LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact reasoning model from Liquid AI. It is suited for agent workflows, data extraction, RAG, and long-context processing. Liquid advises against using it for agentic coding or knowledge-heavy tasks.
Prompts and outputs may be retained and used to train Liquid models.
Span-01 Lite is the free, lighter tier of Span-01, a behavior scoring model from Respan. It returns, for each plain-language behavior you define, the probability that the behavior is present in a conversation span, and is suited for high-volume evaluation and monitoring where cost matters more than peak accuracy.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety is a compact 4B-parameter multimodal guardrail model from NVIDIA, fine-tuned from Google Gemma-3-4B. It moderates both inputs to and responses from LLMs and VLMs, accepting text and image input and returning text output: a safe/unsafe classification for the user prompt and the response, safety category labels, and an optional reasoning trace. It covers 12 languages with a context window of up to 128K tokens.
It is suited for prompt and response moderation, content classification, safety pipelines, and enterprise AI guardrails with policy enforcement, and includes a togglable reasoning mode. It is part of the NVIDIA Nemotron family of open models for agentic AI.
Llama Nemotron Rerank VL 1B V2 is a 1.7B multimodal reranking model from NVIDIA. It evaluates the relevance of document images and text against user queries, designed for vision RAG pipelines handling charts, tables, infographics, and mixed-media documents. Functions as a cross-encoder that accepts text queries paired with image, text, or combined document inputs, delivering approximately 6-7% recall improvements over embedding-only baselines on visual document retrieval benchmarks.
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at a fraction of the compute cost. Supports multimodal input including text, images, and video (up to 60s at 1fps). Features a 256K token context window, native function calling, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, and structured output support. Released under Apache 2.0.
Sim. Todos os modelos nesta página têm preço de $0, portanto seu uso não é cobrado. As variantes gratuitas, cujos IDs terminam em :free, não exigem a compra de créditos, enquanto outros modelos de $0 ainda podem exigir uma conta com saldo. O uso gratuito está sujeito a limites de taxa.
As variantes gratuitas, cujos IDs terminam em :free, têm um limite de 20 solicitações por minuto e 50 solicitações por dia, que aumenta para 1.000 solicitações por dia quando sua conta tiver comprado US$ 10 em créditos (o limite maior começa em US$ 9 para absorver as taxas de recarga). Tentativas malsucedidas contam para o limite diário. Outros modelos de US$ 0 não estão sujeitos a esses limites, mas ainda podem atingir limites por modelo definidos pelo OpenRouter ou pelo provedor. Consulte a documentação de limites de taxa.
Para modelos de chat, envie uma requisição ao mesmo endpoint de Chat Completions compatível com OpenAI que você usa para modelos pagos, com o ID do modelo gratuito no campo model. Outros tipos de modelos usam suas próprias APIs, como /api/v1/rerank para modelos de reclassificação e /api/alpha/decisions para modelos de decisão, portanto consulte a página do modelo para encontrar o endpoint correto. As variantes gratuitas de modelos pagos terminam em :free.
Sim. Defina o modelo como openrouter/free e cada solicitação será roteada para um modelo gratuito adequado a ela, para que você não precise acompanhar quais modelos gratuitos estão disponíveis no momento.
Não. Uma única chave de API do OpenRouter funciona tanto para modelos gratuitos quanto pagos — crie uma chave na sua página de chaves de API e reutilize-a em todos os modelos.