Model Router Benchmarks
We now benchmark model routers side by side across six suites. Our Router Index weighs quality, speed, and cost so you can decide if you need a router and pick the best one for your needs.
Announcements
Product launches, feature updates, and company news.
Model Router Benchmarks
Manage and de-risk your API keys with new Security Center
Batch API: half-price inference by bundling requests
In-Region Routing: Keep your data in the US or EU
Give any model a terminal and files
Image Benchmarks: See the Capabilities of Every Model
OpenRouter is Joining Stripe
Understand your AI usage: every agent, model, and request
Live Web Search Benchmarks: Pick the Right Engine, Depth, and Model for Your Agent
Model Routing Powered by Wisdom of the Market
Ori Harness: The Best Way to Use OpenRouter with Any Harness
Ori Eval: Find the Best Model for What You're Building
Classifiers: Track What Your Agents Do and What It Costs
A New Look for OpenRouter
The OpenRouter MCP Server
Introducing the Unified Image API
Subagent: Let Your Model Delegate the Busywork
Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion
Advisor: Give Any Model a Lifeline to a Smarter One
May Release Spotlight
Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and Costs
OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B
Consistent Web Search and Fetch Across Every Model
New Audio APIs for Speech and Transcription
Response Caching: Zero Cost for Identical Requests
April Release Spotlight
Create OpenRouter Accounts via CLI with Stripe Projects
Introducing Workspaces
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
December Release Spotlight
Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+
Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto
October 2025 BYOK platform fee update
The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter
GPT-5 is now live
