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.

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.

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.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is a small language MoE model with highest compute efficiency and accuracy for developers to build specialized agentic AI systems.

The model is fully open with open-weights, datasets and recipes so developers can easily customize, optimize, and deploy the model on their infrastructure for maximum privacy and security.

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.

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.

Llama Nemotron Rerank VL 1B V2 is a 1.7B multimodal reranking model from NVIDIA. It evaluates the relevance of document images and text against user queries, designed for vision RAG pipelines handling charts, tables, infographics, and mixed-media documents. Functions as a cross-encoder that accepts text queries paired with image, text, or combined document inputs, delivering approximately 6-7% recall improvements over embedding-only baselines on visual document retrieval benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at a fraction of the compute cost. Supports multimodal input including text, images, and video (up to 60s at 1fps). Features a 256K token context window, native function calling, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, and structured output support. Released under Apache 2.0.

NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 is a large language model (LLM) trained from scratch by NVIDIA, and designed as a unified model for both reasoning and non-reasoning tasks. It responds to user queries and tasks by first generating a reasoning trace and then concluding with a final response.

The model's reasoning capabilities can be controlled via a system prompt. If the user prefers the model to provide its final answer without intermediate reasoning traces, it can be configured to do so.

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

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 3.6B active parameters per forward pass, optimized for lower-latency inference and deployability on consumer or single-GPU hardware. The model is trained in OpenAI’s Harmony response format and supports reasoning level configuration, fine-tuning, and agentic capabilities including function calling, tool use, and structured outputs.

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.

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and document intelligence. It introduces a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture, combining transformer-level accuracy with Mamba’s memory-efficient sequence modeling for significantly higher throughput and lower latency.

The model supports inputs of text and multi-image documents, producing natural-language outputs. It is trained on high-quality NVIDIA-curated synthetic datasets optimized for optical-character recognition, chart reasoning, and multimodal comprehension.

Nemotron Nano 2 VL achieves leading results on OCRBench v2 and scores ≈ 74 average across MMMU, MathVista, AI2D, OCRBench, OCR-Reasoning, ChartQA, DocVQA, and Video-MME—surpassing prior open VL baselines. With Efficient Video Sampling (EVS), it handles long-form videos while reducing inference cost.

Open-weights, training data, and fine-tuning recipes are released under a permissive NVIDIA open license, with deployment supported across NeMo, NIM, and major inference runtimes.