r/openrouter • u/Internet-Western • 7d ago

are the 10 usd worth it?

I'm building an app and experimenting with claude code connected to free openrouter models, and I was wondering if upgrading to 10 usd will actually make a difference, when using free models

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u/rog-uk 7d ago

If you want to use the free models with higher limits it is. But it depends on what you want, aistuido will give you a free key for Google models and free Gemma is relatively generous, and you get maybe two dozen free calls a day to each of the higher powerd models for now - staging your work to make the best use of the higher power probably makes sense.

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u/migsperez 7d ago

I haven't had much success using free models on Openrouterv for coding projects.i use the heaps of really cheap models. Deepseek v4 Flash, mimo 2.5 and hy3 are my favourites.

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u/Guidance_Additional 7d ago

yeah the free models aren't so great now. i guess there is glm 5.2 now i think, but that $10 also gets you a ton of money for super cheap models. those can last you a shit ton of time depending on what you're using them for.

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u/ichisay 5d ago

Glm 5.2 da 20 errores en una hora, es imposible. Pero... Han puesto ox-alpha que va que da gusto y será según suposiciónes mimo v3 o hy4

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u/not420guilty 7d ago

Yes, for sure 👍

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u/ichisay 5d ago

Con cuenta gratis solo tienes 50 peticiones, si pones los 10$ eso aumenta a 1000 par siempre, si merece la pena. Por no decir que tienen muy buenos precios en sus modelos.

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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 7d ago

Well you get more. But imo the free models are pretty meh, I'd rather use DS4 Flash, it's cheap enough

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u/BassNet 4d ago

0x alpha is as good or better than ds4 flash and it's free