How we rebuilt provider routing for better, faster inference
The new default router weighs price, speed and reliability, cutting capacity errors 67% and lifting throughput 16.3% for a 6.0% cost increase.
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The new default router weighs price, speed and reliability, cutting capacity errors 67% and lifting throughput 16.3% for a 6.0% cost increase.
OpenRouter will screen every inference request in flight, including Zero Data Retention traffic, and may retain flagged content for human review.
Available by request as an Enterprise add-on, it serves fine-tuned models and reserved capacity under the same slugs, with public providers as optional backup.
All OpenRouter customers get 50% off the 11 ElevenLabs models through October 19 at 8am PT, with no separate ElevenLabs plan required.
The Router Index scores each router from 0 to 10, weighting quality 60%, speed 20% and cost 20% by default, with an adjustable slider.
Available on every OpenRouter plan, it scores key risk and archives up to 500 keys at once, while the IP allowlist is limited to Enterprise admins.
Batches process within 24 hours at roughly half the per-token price, with a median completion time of 7 minutes across 70+ models.
US and EU routing keeps prompts and completions in-region on Business and Enterprise plans, including DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM models.
The beta ships on the Responses and Messages APIs, with sandbox time billed at $0.0001 per second.
We ran 39 image models through 15 deliberately hard prompts and put every result on one page.
Today, we are excited to announce that we are joining forces with Stripe, to power the next wave of GDP growth globally.
See what your team spent on every model, save the charts you keep rebuilding, click any bar to land in the logs behind it, and query the same data from…
We published live leaderboards grading web search configurations across four task suites.
Our new Auto router is informed by the model decisions of millions of people, and it outperforms conventional task-based classifiers across a wide…
Using OpenRouter with your favorite harness usually means ad-hoc scripts or a wall of environment variables.
Choosing the model inside your product is often decided without a systematic method.