Free Models Router
The Free Models Router from OpenRouter provides a convenient multimodal gateway with tool use and vision support, but as a routing layer without its own benchmark data, its performance is entirely dependent on the underlying models selected.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
Our methodology takes into account a range of factors including pricing, functionality, capabilities, benchmark performance, and real-world applicability. Rankings are reviewed and updated regularly as new models are released. Issues with our rankings? Contact us
The simplest way to get free inference. openrouter/free is a router that selects free models at random from the models available on OpenRouter. The router smartly filters for models that support features needed for your request such as image understanding, tool calling, structured outputs and more.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Router |
