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Models.dev

Verified Sep 2026

Quick answer: Building or routing agents that need a shared model + pricing registry across providers.

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Building or routing agents that need a shared model + pricing registry across providers.

Skip if

You only need one vendor's docs or already hardcode a private model catalog.

Who it fits

  • Building or routing agents that need a shared model + pricing registry across providers.
  • Builders who start in the browser without a local IDE setup
  • Terminal-first engineers who live in the shell and git

Pros

Open-source AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities registry

Cons

Editorial Toolkit pick — not an Agents-shelf coding agent or Inference-shelf provider. See Find more for broader discovery. Metadata-only registry — no live inference SLA; community data can lag vendor pricing pages.

Facts

Locality:
Cloud-native
Surfaces:
Web, CLI
Maturity:
General availability
Open source:
Source available
Verified:
Sep 2026

Agent standards & memory

AGENTS.md: N/ASKILL.md: N/ARules / memory: Model catalog JSON/TOML — not a hosted inference endpoint.Free — models.dev API + OSS

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