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OpenRouter's Free Model APIs in 2026: Working With Request Limits Instead of Token Caps

Most developers hit the same wall once they start building with large language models. The prototype works, and then the API bill starts tracking every experiment. Frontier models still bill by the token. Claude Opus 5.5 lists at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, and th…

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  1. 2026-11-05 07:53 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenRouter's Free Model APIs in 2026: Working With Request Limits Instead of Token Caps

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