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EU AI Act & Colorado ADMT Compliance: Human Oversight for AI Agents

A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on Claude or Grok?

May Release Spotlight

Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and Costs

OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B

Human-in-the-Loop Tools for the Agent SDK

Consistent Web Search and Fetch Across Every Model

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Actually Costs

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

Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Actually Costs

Agent SDK: Building Multi-turn Agent Workflows on OpenRouter

Build Your Own Harness with the Agent SDK

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

Distillable Models and Synthetic Data Pipelines with NeMo Data Designer

December Release Spotlight

Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+

The 2025 State of AI Report

Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?

Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto

1 million free BYOK requests per month

The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter

GPT-5 is now live

Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps

Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across Apps

New Privacy-Focused Provider Drop: Venice

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

Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone

New Stealth Model: "Cypher Alpha"

Introducing Presets: Manage LLM Configs from Your Dashboard!

Dev & BYOK Updates: Uptime API + Smarter Key Management

Simplifying Our Platform Fee

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

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

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

New Provider Drop: Cerebras Is Here

Better Insights, Faster Metrics, and New Developer Power Tools

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

Universal PDF Support

Smarter Charts, Inline SVGs, and Live Usage Accounting

Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha Reveal

"Stealth" model: Optimus Alpha

“Stealth” model: Quasar Alpha

Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again

Deep Research & Many New Models

Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts

Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider

Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models

Introducing Web Search via the API

Standardized finish reasons

Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router

Holiday launches: Web Search & Price Cuts

Bring Your Own API Keys

Crypto Payments API

Structured Outputs & Free Gemini Flash 2.0

Price Drops and Llama 3.3 70b

Author Pages & Amazon Nova