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    The 2025 State of AI Report

    December 4, 2025

    Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?

    October 23, 2025

    Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto

    October 21, 2025

    1 million free BYOK requests per month

    October 1, 2025

    The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter

    August 26, 2025

    GPT-5 is now live

    August 7, 2025

    Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps

    August 4, 2025

    Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across Apps

    July 29, 2025

    New Privacy-Focused Provider Drop: Venice

    July 15, 2025

    Use OpenRouter Models in Cursor: Try it with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2

    July 14, 2025

    Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone

    July 10, 2025

    New Stealth Model: "Cypher Alpha"

    July 1, 2025

    Introducing Presets: Manage LLM Configs from Your Dashboard!

    June 26, 2025

    Dev & BYOK Updates: Uptime API + Smarter Key Management

    June 25, 2025

    Simplifying Our Platform Fee

    June 9, 2025

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

    June 4, 2025

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

    May 28, 2025

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

    May 22, 2025

    New Provider Drop: Cerebras Is Here

    May 7, 2025

    Better Insights, Faster Metrics, and New Developer Power Tools

    May 6, 2025

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

    April 28, 2025

    Universal PDF Support

    April 23, 2025

    Smarter Charts, Inline SVGs, and Live Usage Accounting

    April 18, 2025

    Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha Reveal

    April 14, 2025

    "Stealth" model: Optimus Alpha

    April 10, 2025

    “Stealth” model: Quasar Alpha

    April 3, 2025

    Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again

    March 25, 2025

    Deep Research & Many New Models

    March 6, 2025

    Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts

    February 12, 2025

    Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider

    February 4, 2025

    Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models

    January 24, 2025

    Introducing Web Search via the API

    January 23, 2025

    Standardized finish reasons

    January 23, 2025

    Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router

    January 1, 2025

    Holiday launches: Web Search & Price Cuts

    December 24, 2024

    Crypto Payments API

    December 20, 2024

    Bring Your Own API Keys

    December 20, 2024

    Structured Outputs & Free Gemini Flash 2.0

    December 12, 2024

    Price Drops and Llama 3.3 70b

    December 6, 2024

    Author Pages & Amazon Nova

    December 5, 2024