Free Models in 2026
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Free models can give you a way to explore model options without a listed charge, while context provides the ordering basis here. The catalogue includes 22 entries marked free, ordered by context from highest first, so you can filter and sort according to what matters for your work. Inkling and Inkling Small are listed as free, alongside Lyria 3 Clip Preview and Lyria 3 Pro Preview. Check the model details available in the catalogue and use its filtering and sorting to narrow the options for your use case.
22 on record. Sorted by context; every figure comes from the OpenRouter model catalogue, with the page it was read from on each entry.
Context bars share one log scale, 1K to 2M tokens. Prices are what each provider publishes per million tokens; 'varies' is a router that bills the model it picks.