NOT DEPRECATED

Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

state=alive sunset=none days_remaining=n/a severity=low sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

openrouter/free

Q: Is free deprecated?

No — still supported. Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

Vendor: openrouter. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	openrouter/openrouter/free	200,000	—	$0	$0	—
openrouter	openrouter/free	200,000	—	$0	$0	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	modified	openrouter/free: capabilities gained max_completion_tokens, min_p	2026-08-18
high	modified	openrouter/free: capabilities lost min_p	2026-08-18
high	modified	openrouter/free: capabilities lost max_completion_tokens	2026-08-18
low	modified	openrouter/free: capabilities gained max_completion_tokens, min_p	2026-08-12