The 2025 State of AI ReportIntroducing 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. December 4, 2025New
Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?Should customers consider providers that have implicit caching as “ZDR”? October 23, 2025
Provider Variance: Introducing ExactoDoes the same model perform differently across different providers? October 21, 2025
1 million free BYOK requests per monthEvery customer gets 1,000,000 “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) requests per month for free. October 1, 2025
The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouterSOTA image generation, character consistency, and multi-image outputs—now live with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview. August 26, 2025
GPT-5 is now live GPT-5 is here on OpenRouter — long-context, built for complex reasoning and code workflows. August 7, 2025
Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across AppsCustomize once and use everywhere. Server-side presets now simplify your model workflows. July 29, 2025
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. July 15, 2025
Use OpenRouter Models in Cursor: Try it with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2Explore it in action: See how effortlessly you can run Kimi K2 in Cursor using OpenRouter’s flexible model routing. July 14, 2025