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OpenRouter free models: which ones answer now
OpenRouter — docs
Call it
- Base URL
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1- API key
- your own from OpenRouter
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"model":"apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}'OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openrouter-api-key
OPENAI_MODEL=apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:freeUsing apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free, answered 0 of the 4 checks we made in the last week, last answered our key 26 days ago from this server's address. Every model this endpoint offers is in the table below.
Track record: OpenRouter
80 of 336 real chat calls answered in 14 days (24%), median 949 ms.
The 256 that did not answer were 29 rate-limited (HTTP 429 or the provider's own limit message), 207 refused for the one model asked about (HTTP 4xx: listed by the provider, missing or not on this tier), 3 server errors (5xx), 1 timeouts or connection failures, 16 other.
Counting only the 129 calls the provider accepted for a model it offers us, 80 answered (62%): the rest of the gap is models that are listed and refused, not the provider being down.
Median reply 949 ms, 95th percentile 3249 ms, over the calls that answered. We have been calling this endpoint since 4 August 2026. Measured with our own free-tier key from this server's address: it says the endpoint answered our account, not what a new signup receives.
| Day (UTC) | Chat calls | Answered | Median reply |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct | 24 | 5 of 24 | 1314 ms |
| 27 Oct | 24 | 5 of 24 | 615 ms |
| 28 Oct | 24 | 7 of 24 | 954 ms |
| 29 Oct | 24 | 6 of 24 | 1270 ms |
| 30 Oct | 24 | 5 of 24 | 1518 ms |
| 31 Oct | 24 | 4 of 24 | 1990 ms |
| 1 Nov | 24 | 8 of 24 | 943 ms |
| 2 Nov | 24 | 4 of 24 | 1139 ms |
| 3 Nov | 24 | 5 of 24 | 564 ms |
| 4 Nov | 24 | 5 of 24 | 944 ms |
| 5 Nov | 24 | 6 of 24 | 564 ms |
| 6 Nov | 24 | 6 of 24 | 877 ms |
| 7 Nov | 24 | 5 of 24 | 635 ms |
| 8 Nov | 7 | 1 of 7 | 552 ms |
This provider requires an API key. Every row below was measured with stillworks' own free-tier key, from this server's address, at the time shown. That says the endpoint answered our account — it says nothing about what a new signup's free tier includes, and we have no way to measure that for you. Our key is never shown here, returned by the API, or stored in the database.
Free tier, key required. Account opened 2026-08-04 with Google sign-in and a terms checkbox: no card, no phone number. This row reads the zero-price slice of the catalogue: 16 of 338 models cost nothing on that date, 14 of them carrying the :free suffix. Two facts measured here that the marketing does not lead with -- meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free, which every free-LLM list still names, returns 404 and exists only as a paid slug; and the free models are shared upstream pools that answer 429 under load rather than queueing.
Models
| Model | Tier | Answers our key | Chat | Tools | Schema | JSON | Vision | Draws | Worked | Last checked | Last listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no, claimed | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 20 h ago | 25 days ago |
cohere/north-mini-code:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | yes | — | — | 3/3 | 42 h ago | 25 min ago |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 30 h ago | 48 days ago |
dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 4/4 | 11 h ago | 25 min ago |
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no, claimed | no, claimed | yes | — | 1/4 | 32 h ago | 25 min ago |
google/gemma-4-31b-it:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | — | — | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 21 h ago | 25 min ago |
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | no | — | — | 0/3 | 43 h ago | 40 days ago |
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | no | — | — | 0/4 | 37 h ago | 30 days ago |
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | — | yes | — | 0/4 | 5 h ago | 45 days ago |
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | no | — | — | 0/4 | 2 h ago | 93 days ago |
inclusionai/ling-3.0-tiny:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | no | — | — | 0/4 | 7 h ago | 87 days ago |
inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 3/3 | 41 h ago | 25 days ago |
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 4/4 | 3 h ago | 25 min ago |
minimax/minimax-m2.7:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | no, claimed | — | — | 0/4 | 10 h ago | 61 days ago |
minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 0/4 | 9 h ago | 16 days ago |
minimax/minimax-m3:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | no, claimed | no | — | 0/4 | 8 h ago | 61 days ago |
nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 0/4 | 24 h ago | 43 days ago |
nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 0/4 | 22 h ago | 43 days ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 4 h ago | 75 days ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 4/4 | 26 h ago | 25 min ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 13 h ago | 11 days ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 4/4 | 31 h ago | 25 min ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | — | no | no | — | — | 0/4 | 33 h ago | 47 h ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 4/4 | 25 h ago | 25 min ago |
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 4/4 | 23 h ago | 25 min ago |
nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 0/4 | 12 h ago | 75 days ago |
nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 18 h ago | 75 days ago |
openai/gpt-oss-20b:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 6 h ago | 78 days ago |
poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | no | no | — | — | 0/4 | 1 h ago | 7 days ago |
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | — | — | — | 0/4 | 34 h ago | 7 days ago |
recursive/flint-v1.0:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 2/4 | 38 h ago | 25 min ago |
stealth/crouton-alpha | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 1/3 | 19 h ago | 25 min ago |
stealth/ox-alpha | — | yes, on our key | yes | no, claimed | no | yes | yes | — | 0/4 | 15 h ago | 73 days ago |
stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 0/4 | 39 h ago | 33 days ago |
xingchen-agi/xing4.0-29b-a4b:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 36 h ago | 25 min ago |
z-ai/glm-5.2:free | — | yes, on our key | yes | — | — | yes | — | — | 0/4 | 25 min ago | 43 days ago |
~z-ai/glm-latest | — | yes, on our key | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | — | 4/4 | 35 h ago | 69 days ago |
google/lyria-3-clip-preview | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/4 | 27 h ago | 25 min ago |
google/lyria-3-pro-preview | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/4 | 14 h ago | 25 min ago |
liquid/lfm-3-1.7b:free | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/1 | 29 h ago | 25 min ago |
qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/3 | 40 h ago | 33 days ago |
stealth/union-alpha | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/4 | 28 h ago | 51 days ago |
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/4 | 17 h ago | 3 days ago |
thinkingmachines/inkling:free | — | not yet checked | yes | — | — | — | — | — | 0/4 | 16 h ago | 3 days ago |
Scroll the table sideways for the rest of each row. Chat, Worked and Last listed are folded away at this width.
Feature columns are measurements. Where the provider's own listing claims a feature we could not get out of it, the cell says so — that disagreement is the reason this shelf exists.
What Tools, Schema, JSON and Vision mean, and what each cell state means
The columns
Each name links to the call this endpoint's verdict was read from.
- Tools
- We sent a
toolsarray and the model came back with a well-formedtool_callsentry an agent could dispatch. A 200 with no tool call in it is not tool support, and is recorded as a no. - Schema
- The strict structured-output mode:
response_format: {"type": "json_schema", …}. The reply parsed and matched the schema we sent. - JSON
- The weaker mode:
response_format: {"type": "json_object"}. Valid JSON, with no shape enforced. The two come apart in both directions — OVH'sMistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3does the strict form and emits invalid JSON for the weak one; llm7'smeta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbodoesjson_objectwhilejson_schemaanswers 405. - Vision
- A real image went in inline and a correct answer about it came back. We ask about something only a model that looked could know.
- Draws
- On an endpoint's own page: bytes came back with an image content type, and they really are an image. Not a 200 taken on trust.
The cell states
- yes
- A real call proved it, at the time the endpoint page prints beside that call. The dot's tooltip says the same thing where there is a pointer to hover with.
- no
- A clean negative: the parameter was refused, or the answer did not conform.
- no, claimed
- The negative contradicts the provider's own published claim — their listing advertises the feature and our call could not get it out of the model. This is the most interesting cell on the site and the reason the shelf exists.
- never probed
- No verdict. Either nobody has asked yet, or the check ran and got no usable answer back — Pollinations sits here because its anonymous pool answered 402 to every feature probe. It is a question, never a no.
The same columns, in the API
curl 'https://stillworks.supercapybara.com/api/llm/up?feature=tools,json_schema'The names are the API's spelling of the columns: tools, json_schema, json_object, vision, image_out. Several are and, never or — a row comes back only if a real call proved every feature named. Models we never probed for one of them are left out rather than optimistically included, so a filtered shelf is shorter than a hopeful one.
The call behind each verdict
One row per feature: the most recent call that decided that column, whatever it answered. A refusal is the evidence behind a no exactly as a success is the evidence behind a yes, so both are here.
| Feature | When | Outcome | HTTP | Latency | Model | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tools | 13 h ago | client_error | 404 | 26 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| Schema | 13 h ago | client_error | 404 | 16 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| JSON | 13 h ago | client_error | 404 | 31 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| Vision | 13 h ago | client_error | 404 | 29 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
Raw probe log
Our working, so you can check it rather than trust it. Wider than the page at any width — scroll it sideways for the Detail column, which quotes the provider's own refusal back.
| When | Kind | Outcome | HTTP | Latency | Model | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 min ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 197 ms | z-ai/glm-5.2:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 25 min ago | models | ok | 200 | 688 ms | — | |
| 1 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 216 ms | poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free | poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free is no longer available on OpenRouter: no provider serves this m… |
| 1 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 530 ms | — | |
| 2 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 225 ms | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 2 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 580 ms | — | |
| 3 h ago | chat | ok | 200 | 552 ms | liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free | |
| 3 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 791 ms | — | |
| 4 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 197 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 4 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 495 ms | — | |
| 5 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 24 ms | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 5 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 555 ms | — | |
| 6 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 33 ms | openai/gpt-oss-20b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 6 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 570 ms | — | |
| 7 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 16 ms | inclusionai/ling-3.0-tiny:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 7 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 626 ms | — | |
| 8 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 52 ms | minimax/minimax-m3:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 8 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 575 ms | — | |
| 9 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 20 ms | minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free | The free launch period for MiniMax M3.1 Flash ended on Oct 22, 2026. The `:free` variant h… |
| 9 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 575 ms | — | |
| 10 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 217 ms | minimax/minimax-m2.7:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 10 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 564 ms | — | |
| 11 h ago | chat | ok | 200 | 1317 ms | dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free | |
| 11 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 564 ms | — | |
| 12 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 306 ms | nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free | nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free is no longer available on OpenRouter: no provider serv… |
| 12 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 611 ms | — | |
| 13 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 13 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 13 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 696 ms | — | |
| 13 h ago | vision | client_error | 404 | 29 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 13 h ago | json_object | client_error | 404 | 31 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 13 h ago | json_schema | client_error | 404 | 16 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 13 h ago | tools | client_error | 404 | 26 ms | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | This model is unavailable for free. The paid version is available now - use this slug inst… |
| 13 h ago | vision | ok | 200 | 8586 ms | stealth/crouton-alpha | |
| 13 h ago | json_object | ok | 200 | 23657 ms | stealth/crouton-alpha | |
| 13 h ago | json_schema | ok | 200 | 6753 ms | stealth/crouton-alpha | |
| 13 h ago | tools | ok | 200 | 5588 ms | stealth/crouton-alpha | |
| 14 h ago | chat | bad_body | 200 | 1580 ms | google/lyria-3-pro-preview | 200 with no completion in the body |
| 14 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 893 ms | — | |
| 15 h ago | chat | client_error | 404 | 40 ms | stealth/ox-alpha | Thank you for participating in the Stealth Ox Alpha testing period. This model was ZAI's G… |
| 15 h ago | models | ok | 200 | 732 ms | — |