Announcements

Product launches, feature updates, and company news.

Subagent: Let Your Model Delegate the Busywork

The openrouter:subagent server tool lets a frontier model hand off self-contained tasks to a smaller, cheaper, faster worker model mid-generation. Summarize a doc, extract structured data, reformat text, all without burning frontier tokens.

June 16, 2026

Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion

A panel of budget models, fused through OpenRouter, outscored GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on 100 complex research tasks.

June 12, 2026

Advisor: Give Any Model a Lifeline to a Smarter One

The openrouter:advisor server tool lets a fast, cheap model consult a stronger one mid-generation. Run GPT-4o Mini for the routine work. Call Claude Fable when it actually matters.

June 10, 2026

May Release Spotlight

Speech and transcription APIs, Model Fusion, private models, enterprise workspace controls, and 20 new model launches including Gemini 3.5 Flash and Claude Opus 4.8.

June 1, 2026

Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and Costs

Configurable security and governance tools for budget enforcement, zero data retention, model and provider restrictions, prompt injection defense, and data loss prevention.

May 29, 2026

OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B

OpenRouter has raised a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, AMP PBC, and Pace Capital, alongside existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures.

May 28, 2026

Consistent Web Search and Fetch Across Every Model

Give any tool-calling model the ability to search the web and fetch page content on its own, with multiple search engines and fetch engines to choose from.

May 7, 2026

New Audio APIs for Speech and Transcription

Text-to-speech and transcription are now live on OpenRouter. Two new endpoints give you access to speech synthesis and audio transcription across multiple providers, under one API.

May 1, 2026

Response Caching: Zero Cost for Identical Requests

Introducing the new Response Caching header: enables caching identical API requests so responses come back in a tiny fraction of the time, at zero cost.

April 30, 2026

April Release Spotlight

Video generation, workspaces, an agent SDK, reranker models, and a wave of frontier model launches.

April 30, 2026

Create OpenRouter Accounts via CLI with Stripe Projects

Run `stripe projects add openrouter/api` to get an OpenRouter account, an API key, and Stripe billing, all from the command line. Your agents can do it too.

April 29, 2026

Introducing Workspaces

Organize your OpenRouter projects into separate environments, each with its own API keys, routing defaults, guardrails, and observability.

April 22, 2026

Announcing Video Generation

Video generation is now live on OpenRouter. One API gives you access to the top video models.

April 15, 2026

Auto Exacto: Adaptive Quality Routing, On by Default

Auto Exacto re-evaluates providers every 5 minutes across throughput, tool-call telemetry, and benchmark scores. For requests that include tools, it's on by default.

March 12, 2026

February Release Spotlight

Benchmarks on model pages, a new free model router, and improved cost transparency between providers.

February 23, 2026

OpenRouter Outages on February 17 and 19, 2026

What happened and what have we done to prevent this happening again?

February 20, 2026

January Release Spotlight

Prioritize fast LLMs, explore providers, customize the auto router, load skills in the SDK, and big performance improvements.

January 9, 2026

December Release Spotlight

Response Healing for structured outputs, chatroom notifications, long-context model rankings, and we're #1 on Brex's fastest-growing AI infra list!

December 18, 2025

Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+

Today we're launching Response Healing, a new feature on OpenRouter that automatically fixes malformed JSON responses from LLMs before they reach your application

December 18, 2025

Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto

Does the same model perform differently across different providers?

October 21, 2025

1 million free BYOK requests per month

Every customer gets 1,000,000 “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) requests per month for free.

October 1, 2025

The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter

SOTA image generation, character consistency, and multi-image outputs—now live with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview.

August 26, 2025

GPT-5 is now live

GPT-5 is here on OpenRouter — long-context, built for complex reasoning and code workflows.

August 7, 2025

Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps

Add voice input and send PDFs by URL, on any model.

August 4, 2025

New Privacy-Focused Provider Drop: Venice

Venice joins OpenRouter as a new provider, offering its flagship uncensored model for private, powerful, and non-restrictive AI.

July 15, 2025

Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone

Introducing new models to sustain accessible AI inference.

July 10, 2025

New Stealth Model: "Cypher Alpha"

Try Cypher Alpha — a free, general-purpose stealth model with built-in tool-calling.

July 1, 2025

Introducing Presets: Manage LLM Configs from Your Dashboard!

Centralize your LLM logic, iterate faster, and clean up your code. Presets are now live on OpenRouter.

June 26, 2025

Dev & BYOK Updates: Uptime API + Smarter Key Management

Track model uptime via API and get more control over your BYOK setup including usage limits and testable keys.

June 25, 2025

Simplifying Our Platform Fee

We’re rolling out a simpler and more transparent platform fee structure:

June 9, 2025

GIF Prompts, Omni Search, Tool Caching, and BYOK Flags

Faster workflows, smarter tooling, and smoother image support—GIFs, provider search, Anthropic tool-call caching, and BYOK confirmation are all now live.

June 4, 2025

New Features: Reasoning Streams, Crypto Invoices, End-User IDs & More

Stream reasoning summaries, protect your rate limits, pay with crypto, and lock down your keys—now all live on OpenRouter.

May 28, 2025

Passkeys, DevEx Upgrades, and a New Guide for TypeScript Agents

Secure your account with passkeys, explore provider slugs, and build agents faster with fresh docs.

May 22, 2025

New Provider Drop: Cerebras Is Here

A provider built for speed and scale—from wafer to token. See what becomes possible when memory bottlenecks disappear.

May 7, 2025

Better Insights, Faster Metrics, and New Developer Power Tools

Deeper usage insights, sharper perf metrics, and new dev tools to speed up your workflow.

May 6, 2025

Privacy Clarity, New Providers, OAuth Upgrade, and Gemini Gets Parallel Tools

A couple quality-of-life improvements for developers!

April 28, 2025

Universal PDF Support

OpenRouter now supports PDF processing for every model.

April 23, 2025

Smarter Charts, Inline SVGs, and Live Usage Accounting

Smarter analytics, smoother previews, and instant cost visibility—all now live on OpenRouter.

April 18, 2025

Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha Reveal

Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha, which both topped the charts during testing, were early test versions of...

April 14, 2025

"Stealth" model: Optimus Alpha

Announcing our second "stealth" model Optimus Alpha

April 10, 2025

“Stealth” model: Quasar Alpha

Announcing our first-ever “stealth” model, Quasar Alpha

April 3, 2025

Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again

Introducing Zero Token Insurance for All Models

March 25, 2025

Deep Research & Many New Models

The first deep research tool available through the OpenRouter API is live, with full citations directly in the API response.

March 6, 2025

Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts

We're rolling out new sorting shortcuts to give you more control over how OpenRouter selects providers

February 12, 2025

Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider

Clouldflare is live now with a new to OpenRouter Gemma model + popular Llama models.

February 4, 2025

Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models

Understand model thought processes with reasoning tokens

January 24, 2025

Introducing Web Search via the API

Bring all of your requests up to speed with the latest information by incorporating web search results.

January 23, 2025

Standardized finish reasons

Models now return standardized finish reason values, aligned with OpenAI-style conventions.

January 23, 2025

Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router

To start off 2025, we have an upgrade to the Auto Router, and a partnership with NotDiamond

January 1, 2025

Holiday launches: Web Search & Price Cuts

Web search is available for free in the OpenRouter Chatroom.

December 24, 2024

Bring Your Own API Keys

Combine your provider limits and/or cloud credits with OpenRouter, and unify your analytics.

December 20, 2024

Crypto Payments API

The first way to script on-chain payments for any LLM 💸

December 20, 2024

Structured Outputs & Free Gemini Flash 2.0

Structured outputs for OpenAI 4o and Fireworks models + Gemini Flash 2.0

December 12, 2024

Price Drops and Llama 3.3 70b

Price drops and six models, and providers for Llama 3.3 70b

December 6, 2024

Author Pages & Amazon Nova

The new Nova family of models from Amazon has arrived.

December 5, 2024