What is Dots3-Note Preview (free)?

Dots3-Note Preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Dots Studio, with 16B active parameters out of 280B total. It is the lightest model in the Dots 3 family and is suited for reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, long-context processing, and multi-step agent workflows.

Is Dots3-Note Preview (free) free?

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Dots3-Note Preview (free) is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

What is the context length of Dots3-Note Preview (free)?

Dots3-Note Preview (free) has a 512,000 token context window. It supports up to 512,000 completion tokens.

Does Dots3-Note Preview (free) support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Dots3-Note Preview (free) accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does Dots3-Note Preview (free) support?

Dots3-Note Preview (free) accepts text and images as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Dots3-Note Preview (free)?

Dots3-Note Preview (free) is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: AtlasCloud.

When was Dots3-Note Preview (free) released?

Dots3-Note Preview (free) was released on August 14, 2026.

Dots3-Note Preview (free) - API Pricing & Providers

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request without routing.

Latency / throughput


	Free	Free	3.00s	42 tok/s	100.00%

Input FreeOutput Free
42 tok/s100.00% uptime

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput

42tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

3.00s

P50, best provider

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

97.00%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 97.00%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

97.41%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

1.

Kilo Code

Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI to help developers ship code faster with agentic workflows.

2.14Ttokens

2.

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

80.5Btokens

3.

Cline

Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that lives inside your IDE, autonomously exploring your codebase, editing files, running terminal commands, and using browser automation.

76.2Btokens

4.

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

38.6Btokens

5.

Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your entire codebase, plans and executes changes across files, runs tests, and iterates on failures, all from natural language prompts.

20.1Btokens

Top 5 Apps

53.6B

Rest of OpenRouter

15.3B

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)