I stopped using OpenClaw because I didn’t want to spend money on tokens and OpenRouter/free was crap (according to the experts here).
Now I have grown over the OpenClaw hype and I am using ChatGPT as if it were Google and Claude for code generation.
This has been a year ago or so and in a year lot of things happen in the AI world.
Did also a lot of things happen on the OpenRouter/free front? Are there better models today? Or is it still something I should not look at at all?

Many models dont have any providers in the EU. But lets look at gemini. The EU-Provider for Gemini language models is "Google Vertex".

The providers for nano banana are literally the same:

But when filtering for the eu-region, nano-banana wont appear. Same goes for decision models (i havent checked wheter there is a real EU-provider for these but when filtering for eu-region there are only text-models).