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| Provider | Model | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Owl Alpha | 1.0M | 262K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) | 256K | 66K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Poolside: Laguna XS.2 (free) | 131K | 8K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) | 131K | 8K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T (free) | 262K | 33K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Tencent: Hy3 preview (free) | 262K | 262K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast (free) | 66K | 29K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) | 262K | 33K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) | 262K | 33K | See provider page | ||
| OpenRouter | Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview | 1.0M | 66K | See provider page |
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Set the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL environment variable to point to an OpenAI-compatible proxy (such as NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, or Groq), and set ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN to your API key. freellm.cc provides ready-to-copy config snippets for every model.
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Most providers on freellm.cc support the OpenAI SDK format: Groq, NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, Mistral, Cohere, Cerebras, Cloudflare Workers AI, and SiliconFlow. This means you can use them with Cursor, Claude Code, and any tool that accepts a custom baseURL.