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TokenRouter (PaleBlueDot) free tier

🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · no card · not offered in Russia, Iran, Belarus and 3 more places · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · tokenrouter.com · back to the whole list

What you get

OpenAI-compatible gateway with a zero-priced free-model route in its default group beside metered models

Free models

nemotron-3-nano-omni

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Free route: Usage allowance: amount not published (period not published) per account

The free route belongs to the default group. Other catalog routes are metered, apart from an unmarked zero-priced stealth route. No numerical free request or token budget is published.

Where it is offered

Not offered in Russia, Iran, Belarus, Syria, Cuba and North Korea (source, read 2026-09-26). That leaves out 2.7% of the developers GitHub counts, beyond the countries under comprehensive US embargo (Innovation Graph, 2026 Q1). In the vendor’s words: “for or on behalf of parties located in, headquartered in, or having a parent company headquartered in Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, or the occupied regions of Ukraine”.

Connect

Base URL: https://api.tokenrouter.com/v1
Key: TOKENROUTER_API_KEY — get one at https://www.tokenrouter.com/console/token
Callable ids: nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free
Note: Use the zero-priced free-model ID in the default group. PaleBlueDot AI runs tokenrouter.com; similarly named gateways on other TLDs are separate services and their keys do not work here.

Try it from your terminal with your key in TOKENROUTER_API_KEY — it goes from your machine to the vendor and nowhere else:

curl -s https://api.tokenrouter.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

Evidence

Probe: the models catalog at https://api.tokenrouter.com/api/pricing, free rows carrying free, each listed family checked for a zero price
Source: https://api.tokenrouter.com/api/pricing

History

Each line is a change to what this page publishes, dated the day it reached the list, in UTC.

2026-08-14 — Free models changed: dropped kimi-k3
2026-08-05 — Added: Zero-priced Kimi K3 on the gateway’s own deployment, plus a free Nemotron lane, inside a 121-model paid catalog

Generated from registry.yaml on 2026-11-01 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.

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