HERO RUN
Open-source AI, funded by usage

Use any model.
Fund open-source AI.

$HERO is pay-per-use access to 375+ AI models, the newest ones, across 10 gateways: OpenRouter, Groq, Cerebras, Baseten, WaveSpeed and more. No account, no API keys, no per-provider signups. Connect a wallet and run. Every run funds open-source AI.

Start creating Why $HERO?Mixture of Experts

A frontier training run costs about $10 million, and a few dozen labs can afford one. Rather than build one, Hero Run funds the open-training networks already shipping models, to put out as many open models as possible. That is the bet.

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No signup to test

No account, no API keys, no per-provider signups. Connect a Base wallet and run any model.

Every newest model

375+ models across 10 gateways: OpenRouter, Groq, Cerebras, Fireworks, Baseten, WaveSpeed and more. The latest releases, one catalog.

One MCP for agents

Any AI agent plugs into a single MCP server and runs them all, paying $HERO per call. Set it up →

More coming online. New models and gateways are added continuously — text, image, video, and audio, all in one catalog. If a provider ships it, it shows up here.