cyberthoth
Newbie
- Sep 8, 2025
- 8
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Step 1: Create a Free Account on OpenRouter
- Visit https://openrouter.ai/.
- Sign up using your email address.
- Verify your email to activate the account.
Once verified, you’ll have your own API key that can be used to make requests.
Step 2: Get Your Free API Key
- After logging in, go to the API Keys section.
- Generate a new API key.
- Save it securely — this will be used to authenticate your API calls.
Step 3: Use the Free DeepSeek Model
OpenRouter provides many models, but the one that’s free and unlimited is:
Code:
Model Name: deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3.1:free
Base URL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1Below is the list of free models
| URL | MODEL Name | Context |
| https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/sonoma-dusk-alpha | Sonoma Dusk Alpha | 2M context |
| https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/sonoma-sky-alpha | Sonoma Sky Alpha | 2M context |
| https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3.1:free | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free) | 64K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b:free | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free) | 33K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-20b:free | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (free) | 131K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free | Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air (free) | 131K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder:free | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) | 262K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2:free | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711 (free) | 33K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/cognitivecomputations/dolphin-mistral-24b-venice-edition:free | Venice: Uncensored (free) | 33K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/google/gemma-3n-e2b-it:free | Google: Gemma 3n 2B (free) | 8K context |
| https://openrouter.ai/tencent/hunyuan-a13b-instruct:free | Tencent: Hunyuan A13B Instruct (free) | 33K context |
Enjoy
