Announcements
New models, providers, functionality, and ecosystem updates.
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Introducing Zero Token Insurance for All Models
Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again
Deep Research & Many New Models
The first deep research tool available through the OpenRouter API is live, with full citations directly in the API response.
Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts
We're rolling out new sorting shortcuts to give you more control over how OpenRouter selects providers
Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider
Clouldflare is live now with a new to OpenRouter Gemma model + popular Llama models.
Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models
Understand model thought processes with reasoning tokens
Introducing Web Search via the API
Bring all of your requests up to speed with the latest information by incorporating web search results.
Standardized finish reasons
Models now return standardized finish\_reason values, aligned with OpenAI-style conventions.
Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router
To start off 2025, we have an upgrade to the Auto Router, and a partnership with NotDiamond
Holiday launches: Web Search & Price Cuts
Web search is available for free in the OpenRouter Chatroom.
Crypto Payments API
The first way to script on-chain payments for any LLM 💸