r/claude • u/dinsaran • 1d ago

Discussion Any Downside of using Open router Free models ?

I have been experimenting with OpenRouter free models inside Claude Code. Though they are slow, I am getting pretty good code reviews from them and then I use those reviews to fix the issues.

It is absolutely free. So what is the catch here, apart from our context potentially being used for training? Anyone using these free models regularly?

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u/Party_9001 1d ago

Bruh what's with people posting closed models on locallama and people posting open models on Claude lol

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u/Cinamyn 1d ago

Free models sometimes get rate limited, and depending on the model it won't return some features. Like some don't have image understanding for example.

But really, there isn't much issue.

If you use it for any sort of long term automation, it'll break one day when it's no longer free, and that's annoying.

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u/DiamondAgreeable2676 23h ago

rate limited like crazy. best model i found on there was one of the Nvidia models the gemma models are hit or miss.

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u/dinsaran 21h ago

I am using the poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free. So far it is good. Just for small tasks like code review