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How to Get FREE OpenRouter API Key (30 seconds)

Step 1: Go to OpenRouter

👉 https://openrouter.ai/keys

Step 2: Sign In

  • Click "Sign In"
  • Use Google, GitHub, or email
  • No credit card required! ✅

Step 3: Create API Key

  • Click "Create Key"
  • Give it a name: "Synapse Forge"
  • Copy the key (starts with sk-or-...)

Step 4: Add to .env

# Linux
nano .env

# Windows
notepad .env

Paste:

OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-your-key-here

Save and close.

Done! 🎉

Free models available:

  • ✅ Google Gemini Flash 1.5 (Fast, good quality)
  • ✅ Meta Llama 3.1 8B (Open source)
  • ✅ Qwen 2 7B (Fast, multilingual)

No costs, no limits for basic usage!

If You Have Claude API Credits

Want to use Claude instead? Add this to .env:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

Then change demo.js line 17:

// Change this line to use Anthropic
import Anthropic from '@anthropic-ai/sdk';

But OpenRouter is FREE and works great! 🚀