AI API Router Directory

OpenRouter is a unified, OpenAI-compatible API aggregating hundreds of model providers behind one key. Free model variants (:free IDs) are genuinely free with documented platform caps — 20 requests/min and 50/day for accounts that have purchased under 10 credits, 1,000/day once you've purchased 10+ — while paid variants have no platform request cap. Fallback routing, per-key credit caps, and BYOK are built in.

:free models cost $0, no card; 20 req/min; 50 :free req/day with <10 credits, 1000/day after buying $10+ credits (verified FAQ; failed reqs count). ~$1.5/mo equivalent at 50 req/day, ~1K tokens/call.

The Cloudflare AI Playground at playground.ai.cloudflare.com is a browser environment for experimenting with, benchmarking and tuning AI models, with a Model mode for testing system prompts and run settings, a Compare mode for side-by-side evaluation of models under identical prompts, and an experimental Generative UI mode. It is the front end for models that Cloudflare hosts and serves, and the free access terms come from Workers AI: the free allocation allows anyone to use a total of 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, with additional usage on the Workers Paid plan billed at $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons. The model catalog covers 65 models including Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Gemma, Mistral, Nemotron, Whisper and FLUX families, and the playground itself states that output is unverified and does not reflect Cloudflare's views.

Free allocation is stated as 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge on the Workers AI pricing page, equivalent to about $0.11/day at the published rate of $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons (the dollar figure is a conversion, the allowance is official).

LLM7.io is an open-source AI API gateway providing unified access to leading models like GPT and DeepSeek. It stands out for its unique anonymous access tier, allowing developers to test models without registration, and a registration-based free tier with higher limits.

Free relay: ~30 RPM anonymous, rising to ~120 RPM with free token from token.llm7.io (20/min, 100/h sub-caps); base URL api.llm7.io/v1 with api_key 'unused'. No token quota published → no USD estimate.

Ollama (ollama.com) is primarily a local runtime for open models - the ollama.com pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 whose first feature is "Run models locally" and states plainly that "Local models are always free" - and it also operates a cloud API for models too large for local hardware. The cloud side is priced per million tokens with a published table (for example gpt-oss:20b at $0.07 input / $0.30 output, gemma4 at $0.14 / $0.40, deepseek-v4.1-flash at $0.15 / $0.60 and kimi-k3 at $3.00 / $15.00), with higher peak pricing between 12:00 and 18:00 UTC Monday to Friday. Paid plans bundle usage credits: Pro is $20/mo including $60 of usage, Max is $100/mo including $300, and Team is $500/mo including $1,000 of shared credits, while Free accounts receive a starter amount of usage on a smaller set of starter models and can add credits to unlock all models.

No free tier stated on official pages (checked 2026-09-16): the Ollama Free plan lists "Starter usage credits included" and "Includes access to starter models" at $0, but no dollar or token amount is published; local model usage is stated to be always free.

Regolo AI provides scalable serverless AI infrastructure with a focus on privacy and zero data retention. It serves popular open-source models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen) via an OpenAI-compatible API, offering monthly token capacity plans and a flexible free trial.

No public free-tier information found in the source reference; treat free-tier availability as unverified rather than confirmed absent.

Weights & Biases Serverless Inference gives API and playground access to open-source LLMs hosted on CoreWeave, using an existing W&B account and no separate provider keys, with support for bringing your own LoRA weights for fine-tuned models. Token rates are listed per 1M tokens on the W&B pricing page: Meta Llama 3.1 8B at $0.22 input / $0.22 output, Meta Llama 3.3 70B at $0.71 / $0.71, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B at $0.03 / $0.17, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning at $0.07 / $0.20 with a $0.04 cache-hit rate, and DeepSeek V4-Pro at $1.15 / $2.55 with a $0.20 cache-hit rate. Inference spend is separate from platform subscriptions and can be capped with a monthly W&B Inference budget.

Weights & Biases states only that Inference includes 'Free credits for a limited time' on the Free plan and a $5/mo credit on Pro, with no dollar amount or expiry published for the free grant (checked 2026-09-16).