🆓 Free AI Models — 81 Models at Zero Cost

A complete, verified list of 81 AI models you can use for free — no credit card, no hidden fees. Data sourced from first-party provider APIs.

81Free Models

20Providers

54Tool Calling

33Reasoning

27Vision

10Open Weights

51128K+ Context

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Largest Context With Tool Calling With Reasoning With Vision Open Weights All Free Models

📏 Free Models with Largest Context Windows

These free models can handle the longest inputs — perfect for processing documents, codebases, and long conversations.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning	Vision
openrouter--owl-alpha	openrouter	1M	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash--free	openrouter	1M	✅	✅
google--lyria-3-clip-preview	openrouter	1M			✅
google--lyria-3-pro-preview	openrouter	1M			✅
qwen--qwen3-coder--free	openrouter	1M	✅
nvidia--nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b--free	openrouter	1M	✅	✅
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅	✅
gemma-4-31b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅	✅
arcee-ai--trinity-large-thinking--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-26b-a4b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-31b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅	✅
codestral	mistral	256K
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning--free	openrouter	256K	✅	✅	✅
hunyuan-lite	tencent	250K
minimax--minimax-m2.5--free	openrouter	204K	✅	✅

🔧 Free Models with Tool Calling

54 free models support tool/function calling — essential for building AI agents.

Model	Provider	Context	Reasoning	Vision
openrouter--owl-alpha	openrouter	1M
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash--free	openrouter	1M	✅
qwen--qwen3-coder--free	openrouter	1M
nvidia--nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b--free	openrouter	1M	✅
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅
gemma-4-31b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅
arcee-ai--trinity-large-thinking--free	openrouter	262K	✅
google--gemma-4-26b-a4b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-31b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning--free	openrouter	256K	✅	✅
minimax--minimax-m2.5--free	openrouter	204K	✅
z-ai--glm-5.1	openrouter	202K	✅
glm-4.5-flash	auriko	200K	✅
glm-4.7-flash	zhipuai	200K
cobuddy	baidu	131K

🧠 Free Models with Reasoning

33 free models with advanced reasoning capabilities.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash--free	openrouter	1M	✅
nvidia--nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b--free	openrouter	1M	✅
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it	auriko	262K	✅
gemma-4-31b-it	auriko	262K	✅
arcee-ai--trinity-large-thinking--free	openrouter	262K	✅
google--gemma-4-26b-a4b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅
google--gemma-4-31b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning--free	openrouter	256K	✅
minimax--minimax-m2.5--free	openrouter	204K	✅
z-ai--glm-5.1	openrouter	202K	✅

👁️ Free Models with Vision

27 free models that can understand images.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call

🔓 Free Open-Weights Models

10 free models with downloadable weights you can run locally.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning
hunyuan-lite	tencent	250K
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	cerebras	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b	cerebras	131K		✅
llama-3.3-70b	cerebras	131K	✅
llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct	cerebras	131K	✅
qwen-2.5-32b	cerebras	131K	✅
qwen-2.5-coder-32b	cerebras	131K	✅
qwen3-32b	cerebras	131K	✅
qwen--qwen3.5-4b-free	mixlayer	131K	✅	✅
voyage-4-nano	voyage	?

📋 All 81 Free AI Models

Complete list of every free AI model in our catalog, sorted by context window size.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning	Vision	Open Weights
openrouter--owl-alpha	openrouter	1M	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash--free	openrouter	1M	✅	✅
google--lyria-3-clip-preview	openrouter	1M			✅
google--lyria-3-pro-preview	openrouter	1M			✅
qwen--qwen3-coder--free	openrouter	1M	✅
nvidia--nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b--free	openrouter	1M	✅	✅
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅	✅
gemma-4-31b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅	✅
arcee-ai--trinity-large-thinking--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-26b-a4b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-31b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅	✅
codestral	mistral	256K
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning--free	openrouter	256K	✅	✅	✅
hunyuan-lite	tencent	250K				✅
minimax--minimax-m2.5--free	openrouter	204K	✅	✅
z-ai--glm-5.1	openrouter	202K	✅	✅
glm-4.5-flash	auriko	200K	✅	✅
glm-4.7-flash	zhipuai	200K	✅
spotlight	arcee	131K			✅
cobuddy	baidu	131K	✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	cerebras	131K		✅		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b	cerebras	131K		✅		✅
llama-3.3-70b	cerebras	131K	✅			✅
llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct	cerebras	131K	✅			✅
qwen-2.5-32b	cerebras	131K	✅			✅
qwen-2.5-coder-32b	cerebras	131K	✅			✅
qwen3-32b	cerebras	131K	✅			✅
gemma-3-12b-it	google	131K			✅
gemma-3-1b-it	google	131K
gemma-3-27b-it	google	131K			✅
gemma-3-4b-it	google	131K			✅
gemma-3n-E2B-it	google	131K			✅
gemma-3n-E4B-it	google	131K			✅
glm-4-7-flash	meganova	131K	✅
manta-flash-1.0	meganova	131K	✅
manta-mini-1.0	meganova	131K	✅
manta-pro-1.0	meganova	131K	✅
qwen--qwen3.5-4b-free	mixlayer	131K	✅	✅		✅
baidu--cobuddy--free	openrouter	131K	✅	✅
openai--gpt-oss-120b--free	openrouter	131K	✅	✅
openai--gpt-oss-20b--free	openrouter	131K	✅	✅
poolside--laguna-m.1--free	openrouter	131K	✅	✅
poolside--laguna-xs.2--free	openrouter	131K	✅	✅
z-ai--glm-4.5-air--free	openrouter	131K	✅	✅
glm-4.6v-flash	auriko	128K	✅	✅	✅
sarvam--sarvam-105b	fastrouter	128K	✅	✅
sarvam--sarvam-30b	fastrouter	128K	✅	✅
devstral	mistral	128K	✅
nvidia--nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl--free	openrouter	128K	✅	✅	✅
glm-4-flash-250414	zhipuai	128K	✅
glm-4.6v-flash	zhipuai	128K	✅		✅
baidu--ernie-4.5-0.3b	aimlapi	120K	✅
baidu--ernie-4.5-0.3b	ppio	120K
qwen--qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct	novitaai	65K	✅		✅
qwen--qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-thinking	novitaai	65K	✅	✅	✅
glm-4.1v-thinking-flash	zhipuai	64K	✅	✅	✅
baichuan4	baichuan	32K
autoglm-phone	zhipuai	20K	✅		✅
glm-4v-flash	zhipuai	16K	✅		✅
spark-lite	iflytek	8K
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-omni	aimlapi	?
glm-4.7-flash	auriko	?	✅	✅
glm-4.5-flash	llmgateway	?	✅
glm-4.6v-flash	llmgateway	?	✅	✅	✅
glm-4.7-flash	llmgateway	?	✅	✅
cognitivecomputations--dolphin-mistral-24b-venice-edition--free	openrouter	?
liquid--lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct--free	openrouter	?
liquid--lfm-2.5-1.2b-thinking--free	openrouter	?		✅
meta-llama--llama-3.2-3b-instruct--free	openrouter	?
meta-llama--llama-3.3-70b-instruct--free	openrouter	?	✅
nousresearch--hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b--free	openrouter	?
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b--free	openrouter	?	✅	✅
nvidia--nemotron-nano-9b-v2--free	openrouter	?	✅	✅
openrouter--free	openrouter	?	✅	✅	✅
qwen--qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct--free	openrouter	?	✅
step-1x-edit	stepfun	?			✅
step-2x-large	stepfun	?			✅
step-audio-r1.1	stepfun	?
step-gui	stepfun	?			✅
voyage-4-nano	voyage	?				✅
glm-ocr	zhipuai	?	✅		✅

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