Real models, free, without a card

What the allowance gives you

• 25 requests every day, reset daily and never expiring
• Answers up to 8,000 tokens
• No credit card, and nothing charged if you never add one
• The same routing, fallback, guardrails and receipts paid traffic gets

The models it covers

Two, named plainly rather than described as “selected models”. Sending "auto" picks the first.

One caveat worth stating: the second model's provider trains on prompts by its own published policy, which is why "auto" never chooses it - you have to name it. Every model's data policy is on the model directory with the date we checked it.

Start now

curl https://finalrouter.com/api/v1/chat/completions   -H "Authorization: Bearer $FINAL_ROUTER_KEY"   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'

# Every response says how much allowance is left:
#   X-Final-Router-Free-Remaining: 24

What the allowance does not cover

Said here rather than discovered in an error. The free allowance is a chat allowance: embeddings need credit, because none of its three bounds mean anything for vector workloads. Routing policies, the rest of the catalogue and higher rate limits also arrive with credit - and credit is pay-as-you-go, with no subscription and no minimum.