Free AI Models on OpenRouter

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.

Laguna S 2.1 is the latest coding agent model from Poolside. Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total parameter model with 8B active parameters, scoring 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 40.4% on DeepSWE, making it one of the strongest coding models in its category. Open-weight under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

Laguna S 2.1 is designed for software engineering and agentic coding use cases, and you are responsible for confirming that it is appropriate for your intended application. Laguna S 2.1 is subject to the OpenMDW-1.1 License, and should be used consistently with Poolside's Acceptable Use Policy. We advise against circumventing Laguna S 2.1 safety guardrails without implementing substantially equivalent mitigations appropriate for your use case.

Please report security vulnerabilities or safety concerns to [email protected].

If you are using Laguna S 2.1 for free, we may use your inputs and outputs to train and improve our models.

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.

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin is a finance-focused mixture-of-experts model from InclusionAI, built on Ling 3.0 Flash with 5.1B active parameters out of 124B total. It is designed for real-world investment workflows that require complex multi-step tasks and long-horizon planning and execution, while retaining general capabilities in reasoning, coding, and mathematics.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open hybrid MoE model, activating just 12B parameters for maximum compute efficiency and accuracy in complex multi-agent applications. Built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts architecture with multi-token prediction (MTP), it delivers over 50% higher token generation compared to leading open models.

The model features a 1M token context window for long-term agent coherence, cross-document reasoning, and multi-step task planning. Latent MoE enables calling 4 experts for the inference cost of only one, improving intelligence and generalization. Multi-environment RL training across 10+ environments delivers leading accuracy on benchmarks including AIME 2025, TerminalBench, and SWE-Bench Verified.

Fully open with weights, datasets, and recipes under the NVIDIA Open License, Nemotron 3 Super allows easy customization and secure deployment anywhere — from workstation to cloud.

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.

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.

Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is a health and medicine-focused mixture-of-experts model from InclusionAI, built on Ling 3.0 Flash with 5.1B active parameters out of 124B total. It is designed for medical knowledge reasoning, clinical safety, evidence-based retrieval, and long-horizon medical tasks, while retaining general capabilities in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks.

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.

Laguna XS 2.1 is the latest coding agent model in the 33B-A3B category from Poolside and a step forward from their Laguna XS.2 model (released in April 2026). It combines tool calling and reasoning capabilities with a compact footprint, offering a 256K context window and up to 32K output tokens. Quantized to FP8 for fast, cost-efficient agentic coding workflows.

Laguna XS 2.1 is designed for software engineering and agentic coding use cases, and you are responsible for confirming that it is appropriate for your intended application. Laguna XS 2.1 is subject to the OpenMDW-1.1 License, and should be used consistently with Poolside's Acceptable Use Policy. We advise against circumventing Laguna XS 2.1 safety guardrails without implementing substantially equivalent mitigations appropriate for your use case.

Please report security vulnerabilities or safety concerns to [email protected].

If you are using Laguna XS 2.1 for free, we may use your inputs and outputs to train and improve our models.

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.

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.

rerank-2.5 is a cutting-edge reranker optimized for quality, delivering a 7.94% improvement in retrieval accuracy over Cohere Rerank v3.5 across 93 datasets. It also outperformed Cohere Rerank v3.5 by 12.70% on the Massive Instructed Retrieval Benchmark (MAIR). The model supports a combined context length of 32K tokens per query–document pair, including up to 8K tokens for the query, enabling more accurate retrieval over longer documents. Additionally, rerank-2.5 supports instruction following, allowing users to guide relevance scoring through natural language prompts. Learn more about rerank-2.5 here: https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/08/11/rerank-2-5

rerank-2.5-lite is a reranker optimized for both latency and quality, delivering a 7.16% improvement in retrieval accuracy over Cohere Rerank v3.5 across 93 datasets. It also outperformed Cohere Rerank v3.5 by 10.36% on the Massive Instructed Retrieval Benchmark (MAIR). The model supports a combined context length of 32K tokens per query–document pair, including up to 8K tokens for the query, enabling more accurate retrieval over longer documents. Additionally, rerank-2.5-lite supports instruction following, allowing users to guide relevance scoring through natural language prompts. Learn more about rerank-2.5-lite here: blog.voyageai.com/2025/08/11/rerank-2-5

Qwen3 Reranker 8B is a text reranking model from Alibaba Cloud built on the Qwen3 architecture. It evaluates query-document pairs to produce relevance scores for use in retrieval and RAG pipelines. Supports 100+ languages and programming languages, with instruction-aware reranking that allows customizing scoring criteria per task. Offers strong performance on multilingual benchmarks including MTEB, CMTEB, and MMTEB.