Latest posts and updates from OpenRouter.https://openrouter.ai/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/hermes-agent/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/hermes-agent/Hermes Agent has pushed over 17 trillion tokens through OpenRouter. Here's how to set it up, pick a model that clears the 64K context bar, and tune routing for cost and reliability.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/how-to-get-the-lowest-cost-llm-inference-on-openrouter/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/how-to-get-the-lowest-cost-llm-inference-on-openrouter/Append :floor for the cheapest provider, cap spend with max_price, and start free with 20+ zero-cost models. Plus the billing gotchas to avoid.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/model-routing/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/model-routing/OpenRouter routes every request across 60+ providers, and you control how: provider order, price ceilings, and the fallback chain. Here's how each routing layer works.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/reliability-failover/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/reliability-failover/Provider failover is on by default. Model fallbacks are opt-in. The two layers recover from different failures; here's how each one works and where failover stops.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/A panel of budget models, fused through OpenRouter, outscored GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on 100 complex research tasks.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/dinner-is-served/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/dinner-is-served/Standardizing on one LLM is like everyone at the table ordering their own entree. The case for going family style with your AI, and the OpenRouter data showing teams already do.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/llm-gateway/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/llm-gateway/Without an LLM gateway, provider outages become user-facing errors and AI spend stays opaque. Compare the best options by routing, compliance, and setup time.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/advisor-server-tool/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/advisor-server-tool/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.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/gemini-25-flash-api-pricing-quickstart-provider-comparison/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/gemini-25-flash-api-pricing-quickstart-provider-comparison/Overpaying for reasoning you don't need? Learn how to configure Gemini 2.5 Flash API thinking budgets, compare providers, and make your first call in 5 minutes.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/human-oversight-eu-ai-act-compliance-agent-sdk/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/human-oversight-eu-ai-act-compliance-agent-sdk/Use the Agent SDK's human-in-the-loop (HITL) tools to meet AI agent compliance requirements from the EU AI Act, Colorado's Automated Decision-Making Technology law (SB26-189), and NIST AI RMF.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/may-release-spotlight/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/guardrails/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/guardrails/Configurable security and governance tools for budget enforcement, zero data retention, model and provider restrictions, prompt injection defense, and data loss prevention.Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/series-b/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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.Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/human-in-the-loop-tools/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/human-in-the-loop-tools/A new tool type in the OpenRouter Agent SDK lets your agent auto-resolve routine decisions and pause for human input on high-stakes ones, with two hooks and zero loop-management code.Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/agentic-web-tools/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/agentic-web-tools/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.Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/gpt55-cost-analysis/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/gpt55-cost-analysis/OpenAI doubled per-token prices with GPT-5.5 but the model is less verbose. We measured real usage to see the net cost impact.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/announcing-audio-apis/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/announcing-audio-apis/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.Fri, 01 May 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/response-caching/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/response-caching/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.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/april-release-spotlight/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/april-release-spotlight/Video generation, workspaces, an agent SDK, reranker models, and a wave of frontier model launches.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-on-stripe-projects/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-on-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.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/opus-47-tokenizer-analysis/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/opus-47-tokenizer-analysis/Anthropic changed the tokenizer in Opus 4.7. We looked at usage that shifted from 4.6 to 4.7 to measure exactly how it affects costs.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/agent-sdk-with-callmodel/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/agent-sdk-with-callmodel/The OpenRouter Agent SDK gives you callModel: one function that turns a chat completion into a multi-step agent with tool calls, stop conditions, and cost tracking across 300+ models.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/create-agent-harness-with-agent-sdk/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/create-agent-harness-with-agent-sdk/Use the create-agent-tui and create-headless-agent skills to scaffold a personalized coding agent in minutes — with a terminal UI or headless for scripts and pipelines.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-workspaces/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-workspaces/Organize your OpenRouter projects into separate environments, each with its own API keys, routing defaults, guardrails, and observability.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/video-generation/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/video-generation/Video generation is now live on OpenRouter. One API gives you access to the top video models.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/auto-exacto/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/auto-exacto/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.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/february-release-spotlight/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/february-release-spotlight/Benchmarks on model pages, a new free model router, and improved cost transparency between providers. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-outages-on-february-17-and-19-2026/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-outages-on-february-17-and-19-2026/What happened and what have we done to prevent this happening again? Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/january-release-spotlight/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/january-release-spotlight/Prioritize fast LLMs, explore providers, customize the auto router, load skills in the SDK, and big performance improvements. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/distillable-models-and-synthetic-data-pipelines-with-nemo-data-designer/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/distillable-models-and-synthetic-data-pipelines-with-nemo-data-designer/How to generate license-safe synthetic data workflows for model specialization Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/december-release-spotlight/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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! Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/response-healing-reduce-json-defects-by-80percent/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/response-healing-reduce-json-defects-by-80percent/Today we're launching Response Healing, a new feature on OpenRouter that automatically fixes malformed JSON responses from LLMs before they reach your application Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/the-2025-state-of-ai-report/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/the-2025-state-of-ai-report/Introducing the 2025 State of AI report, in partnership with a16z. The largest empirical look yet at how developers and organizations use language models in the real world. Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/is-implicit-caching-prompt-retention/https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/is-implicit-caching-prompt-retention/Should customers consider providers that have implicit caching as “ZDR”? Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/provider-variance-introducing-exacto/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/provider-variance-introducing-exacto/Does the same model perform differently across different providers? Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/1-million-free-byok-requests-per-month/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/1-million-free-byok-requests-per-month/Every customer gets 1,000,000 “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) requests per month for free. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/the-first-ever-image-model-is-up-on-openrouter/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/gpt-5-is-now-live/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/gpt-5-is-now-live/GPT-5 is here on OpenRouter — long-context, built for complex reasoning and code workflows. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/audio-inputs-and-pdf-urls-for-apps/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/audio-inputs-and-pdf-urls-for-apps/Add voice input and send PDFs by URL, on any model. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/presets-how-to-seamlessly-transfer-model-configurations-across-apps/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/presets-how-to-seamlessly-transfer-model-configurations-across-apps/Customize once and use everywhere. Server-side presets now simplify your model workflows. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/new-privacy-focused-provider-drop-venice/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/use-openrouter-models-in-cursor-try-it-with-moonshot-ais-kimi-k2/https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/use-openrouter-models-in-cursor-try-it-with-moonshot-ais-kimi-k2/Explore it in action: See how effortlessly you can run Kimi K2 in Cursor using OpenRouter’s flexible model routing. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/updates-to-our-free-tier-sustaining-accessible-ai-for-everyone/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/updates-to-our-free-tier-sustaining-accessible-ai-for-everyone/Introducing new models to sustain accessible AI inference. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/new-stealth-model-cypher-alpha/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/new-stealth-model-cypher-alpha/Try Cypher Alpha — a free, general-purpose stealth model with built-in tool-calling. Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-presets-manage-llm-configs-from-your-dashboard/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/dev-and-byok-updates-uptime-api-smarter-key-management/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/dev-and-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. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/simplifying-our-platform-fee/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/simplifying-our-platform-fee/We’re rolling out a simpler and more transparent platform fee structure: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/gif-prompts-omni-search-tool-caching-and-byok-flags/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/new-features-reasoning-streams-crypto-invoices-end-user-ids-and-more/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/new-features-reasoning-streams-crypto-invoices-end-user-ids-and-more/Stream reasoning summaries, protect your rate limits, pay with crypto, and lock down your keys—now all live on OpenRouter. Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/passkeys-devex-upgrades-and-a-new-guide-for-typescript-agents/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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. Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/new-provider-drop-cerebras-is-here/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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. Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/better-insights-faster-metrics-and-new-developer-power-tools/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/better-insights-faster-metrics-and-new-developer-power-tools/Deeper usage insights, sharper perf metrics, and new dev tools to speed up your workflow. Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/privacy-clarity-new-providers-oauth-upgrade-and-gemini-gets-parallel-tools/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/privacy-clarity-new-providers-oauth-upgrade-and-gemini-gets-parallel-tools/A couple quality-of-life improvements for developers! Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/universal-pdf-support/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/universal-pdf-support/OpenRouter now supports PDF processing for every model. Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/smarter-charts-inline-svgs-and-live-usage-accounting/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/smarter-charts-inline-svgs-and-live-usage-accounting/Smarter analytics, smoother previews, and instant cost visibility—all now live on OpenRouter. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/quasar-alpha-and-optimus-alpha-reveal/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/quasar-alpha-and-optimus-alpha-reveal/Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha, which both topped the charts during testing, were early test versions of... Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/stealth-model-optimus-alpha/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/stealth-model-optimus-alpha/Announcing our second "stealth" model Optimus Alpha Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/stealth-model-quasar-alpha/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/stealth-model-quasar-alpha/Announcing our first-ever “stealth” model, Quasar Alpha Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/never-pay-for-empty-ai-responses-again/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/never-pay-for-empty-ai-responses-again/Introducing Zero Token Insurance for All Models Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/deep-research-and-many-new-models/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/deep-research-and-many-new-models/The first deep research tool available through the OpenRouter API is live, with full citations directly in the API response. Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-nitro-and-floor-price-shortcuts/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-nitro-and-floor-price-shortcuts/We're rolling out new sorting shortcuts to give you more control over how OpenRouter selects providers Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-cloudflare-as-a-new-provider/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-cloudflare-as-a-new-provider/Clouldflare is live now with a new to OpenRouter Gemma model + popular Llama models. Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/reasoning-tokens-for-thinking-models/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/reasoning-tokens-for-thinking-models/Understand model thought processes with reasoning tokens Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-web-search-via-the-api/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/introducing-web-search-via-the-api/Bring all of your requests up to speed with the latest information by incorporating web search results. Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/standardized-finish-reasons/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/standardized-finish-reasons/Models now return standardized finish reason values, aligned with OpenAI-style conventions. Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/happy-new-year-introducing-a-new-auto-router/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/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 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/holiday-launches-web-search-and-price-cuts/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/holiday-launches-web-search-and-price-cuts/Web search is available for free in the OpenRouter Chatroom. Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/bring-your-own-api-keys/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/bring-your-own-api-keys/Combine your provider limits and/or cloud credits with OpenRouter, and unify your analytics. Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/crypto-payments-api/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/crypto-payments-api/The first way to script on-chain payments for any LLM 💸 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/structured-outputs-and-free-gemini-flash-20/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/structured-outputs-and-free-gemini-flash-20/Structured outputs for OpenAI 4o and Fireworks models + Gemini Flash 2.0 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/price-drops-and-llama-33-70b/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/price-drops-and-llama-33-70b/Price drops and six models, and providers for Llama 3.3 70b Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/author-pages-and-amazon-nova/https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/author-pages-and-amazon-nova/The new Nova family of models from Amazon has arrived. Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT