OpenRouter Limited-Time Free Models

  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) — 6 days left (expires 2026-06-29). 1M context, prompt $30/M tokens, completion $150/M tokens. Try on OpenRouter
  • Forsy-AI/agent-apprenticeship — A living ecosystem where AI agents learn from real-world work through iterative workflow loops. ⭐ 606
  • Plaer1/junction — VS Code chat sidebar for local AI coding agents. ⭐ 517 (TypeScript)
  • dongshuyan/compass-skills — 司南 / COMPASS: a Personal Alignment Skills OS for AI agents. ⭐ 407 (Python)
  • nnecrkvenuOX/formcms — AI-agent-friendly open-source headless CMS on ASP.NET Core (C#) + React with REST + GraphQL APIs. ⭐ 357
  • leyten/shard — Pipeline-parallel LLM inference across GPUs on separate machines. ⭐ 291 (Python)

Today’s Snapshot

  • HuggingFace models: 10
  • OpenRouter limited-free: 1
  • GitHub repos: 5
  • ArXiv papers: 0
  • Total items: 16

Final Thoughts

A light day on the OpenRouter free-tier front — only Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) is rotating in, but it’s a 1M-context model with six full days left and a tempting entry price if you want to benchmark against your own stack. On HuggingFace, the visualrl family from Miiche is building momentum: the LoRA and full-FT M3 variants landed back-to-back, and a CLIP/LLaMA-3B vision-language model is worth a closer look. GitHub’s trending list is dominated by agent infrastructure — Forsy-AI/agent-apprenticeship (workflow loops for agents) and Plaer1/junction (local AI coding sidebar) are the two standouts, with leyten/shard offering a practical path to multi-node LLM inference.