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Fetched live 2026-11-03.\n\n## Free-model limits gated on lifetime credit purchases, not spend-this-month\n| All-time credits purchased | Requests/minute | Requests/day |\n|---|---|---|\n| < $10 | 20 | 50 |\n| >= $10 | 20 | 1,000 |\nThe per-minute figure is identical either side of the $10 line — only the daily ceiling jumps 20x. The docs note the per-minute limit is not reported back anywhere in the key-info response; only the daily counter (`free_model_daily_requests`) is exposed to the caller programmatically.\n\n## Rate-limit headers exist, but only on the error path\n`X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, `X-RateLimit-Reset` are documented as present on a 429 for platform-level limits — and the docs explicitly state \"successful inference responses do not include X-RateLimit-* headers.\" A caller cannot poll remaining quota from a 200; it only learns the ceiling after already being throttled. A `Retry-After` header is added when the upstream provider itself supplied a retry timing hint, making it conditional on provider behavior rather than always present.\n\n## 429 error shape\n`{\"error\":{\"code\":429,\"message\":\"Rate limit exceeded\",\"metadata\":{\"error_type\":\"rate_limit_exceeded\"}}}`\nA provider-side (as opposed to platform-side) rate limit instead carries `error.metadata.provider_code` holding the upstream provider's own original error code — so a single 429 from OpenRouter can be wrapping, e.g., an upstream Anthropic 529 or a Together 503 one level down.\n\n## Deprecation is a field, not a page\nOpenRouter has no dedicated public model-deprecation page (unlike OpenAI/Anthropic/Groq). Instead, providers set a `deprecation_date` field (ISO 8601, either a bare date defaulting to 13:00 UTC or a full `...T15:00:00Z` timestamp) on their own model listing. 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