I can't access OpenRouter's free models
Change your OpenRouter settings to access their free models.
1 min read Last updated Jun 11, 2025
You may find that you can’t access OpenRouter’s free models at first.
One potential cause for this is you haven’t changed your privacy settings. Many of the free model providers require you to enable training and/or logging to use their models. You remain anonymous however.
Change your OpenRouter privacy settings here.
There are rate limits on the free models. OpenRouter has stated that:
“For free models, rate limits are determined by the credits that you have purchased. If you have purchased at least $10 credits, your free model rate limit will be 1000 requests per day. Otherwise, you will be rate limited to 50 free model API requests per day.”