Announcements & Insights
New models, functionality, ecosystem updates, and analysis from the OpenRouter team.
Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?
Should customers consider providers that have implicit caching as “ZDR”?
Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto
Does the same model perform differently across different providers?
1 million free BYOK requests per month
Every customer gets 1,000,000 “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) requests per month for free.
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.
GPT-5 is now live
GPT-5 is here on OpenRouter — long-context, built for complex reasoning and code workflows.
Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps
Add voice input and send PDFs by URL, on any model.
Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across Apps
Customize once and use everywhere. Server-side presets now simplify your model workflows.
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.
Use OpenRouter Models in Cursor: Try it with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2
Explore it in action: See how effortlessly you can run Kimi K2 in Cursor using OpenRouter’s flexible model routing.
Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone
Introducing new models to sustain accessible AI inference.