Announcing Video Generation
Auto Exacto: Adaptive Quality Routing, On by Default
February Release Spotlight
OpenRouter Outages on February 17 and 19, 2026
January Release Spotlight
Distillable Models and Synthetic Data Pipelines with NeMo Data Designer
Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+
December Release Spotlight
The 2025 State of AI Report
Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?
Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto
1 million free BYOK requests per month
The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter
GPT-5 is now live
Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps
Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across Apps
New Privacy-Focused Provider Drop: Venice
Use OpenRouter Models in Cursor: Try it with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2
Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone
New Stealth Model: "Cypher Alpha"
Introducing Presets: Manage LLM Configs from Your Dashboard!
Dev & BYOK Updates: Uptime API + Smarter Key Management
Simplifying Our Platform Fee
GIF Prompts, Omni Search, Tool Caching, and BYOK Flags
New Features: Reasoning Streams, Crypto Invoices, End-User IDs & More
Passkeys, DevEx Upgrades, and a New Guide for TypeScript Agents
New Provider Drop: Cerebras Is Here
Better Insights, Faster Metrics, and New Developer Power Tools
Privacy Clarity, New Providers, OAuth Upgrade, and Gemini Gets Parallel Tools
Universal PDF Support
Smarter Charts, Inline SVGs, and Live Usage Accounting
Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha Reveal
"Stealth" model: Optimus Alpha
“Stealth” model: Quasar Alpha
Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again
Deep Research & Many New Models
Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts
Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider
Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models
Standardized finish reasons
Introducing Web Search via the API
Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router
Holiday launches: Web Search & Price Cuts
Crypto Payments API
Bring Your Own API Keys
Structured Outputs & Free Gemini Flash 2.0
Price Drops and Llama 3.3 70b
Author Pages & Amazon Nova