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@openrouter: OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent mo
Disclaimer: no AI was used whatsoever to write this post Cautionary tale about chasing cheap tokens. exposé: https://kendell.dev/blog/crofaifalse/ reaction by nahcrof, announcing the shutdown of the s
Alix Coutures / The Information: Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Bori
Excited to partner with @OpenRouter ⚡ Products like OpenRouter Fusion and Sakana Fugu have sparked a serious conversation about dependency and resilience in AI. I believe this is just the start of a g
Fugu-Ultra is now live on @OpenRouter! ⚡ We share a core vision with the OpenRouter team: the future of AI isn’t a single monolithic model, but the collective intelligence of the world’s best models w
Fugu Ultra by @SakanaAILabs is live on OpenRouter! Excited to see more multi-model systems pushing the frontier. Fugu-Ultra is now live on @OpenRouter! ⚡ We share a core vision with the OpenRouter tea
GLM-5.2 is now available in Cursor. The model has performed strongly on OpenRouter's Cursor usage rankings over the past week. Would love to hear comparisons of the experience using BYOK (GLM Coding P
The Information: Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait — This July, Nvidia caught
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January — Bo
Bloomberg: Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than 7B; OpenRouter was valued at 1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire Op
Bloomberg reports Stripe agreed to buy model router OpenRouter for over $7B; Stripe has not confirmed the deal.
OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc. for north of 7 billion, according to a report
OpenRouter released a guide focusing on optimizing the use of Hermes Agent through the OpenRouter platform. The guide likely covers best practices, configuration options, and techniques for maximizing
So you want to use OpenRouter? One of OpenRouter's selling points is that it 'handles fallbacks automatically and picks the most cost-effective option for each request', so you can call a single API e
Nice stats from @OpenRouter that illustrate how @togethercompute delivers solid and scaled performance for agentic workloads. We are serving GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash @ top decile of TPS, latency, cac
Fugu Max is now live on @OpenRouter! 🐡 Our learned multi-agent orchestration engine routes tasks across open-weights and specialized models for Pareto-frontier efficiency. • 2/6 per 1M tokens • Multim
Release: llm-openrouter 0.6 llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire. I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRout
Bloomberg: Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed — Stripe Inc. has agreed to buy OpenRouter Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that helps developers access and switch betwe
Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at 7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reporte
The math don’t math. I’m paying way more on ollama for glm5.3 flash games Han I am on Openrouter. I made 153 requests for 47cents on Openrouter. On ollama it was 147 requests for $1.67. Math dont math
Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unk
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new m
Interesting research suggests caution in determining which AI company is winning by looking at any one source.. OpenRouter seems to show open weights winning over time, but work submitted to Pangram i
Qwen3.8-Flash is now live on @OpenRouter! ⚡ Coding assistants, agentic workflows, long-video understanding, all one API call away. Qwen3.8 Flash from @Alibaba_Qwen is now live on OpenRouter. A multimo
Live and ready to build. Thanks for having us! @OpenRouter. Open weights dropping soon.⚡️ Qwen3.8 Max by @Alibaba_Qwen is live on OpenRouter. The new flagship has 2.4T parameters (95B active) and is b
Nous Research announced or shared information about their Hermes Agent project via OpenRouter, likely detailing capabilities, updates, or technical specifications for their AI agent system. OpenRouter
We just hit number one globally across all AI apps on OpenRouter. Super grateful to the nearly 1000 contributors who've helped make Hermes Agent great, thank you! What do you want to see next? Hermes
This Reddit thread from r/ollama discusses the value comparison between Ollama's 20/month Pro plan for cloud model usage versus using OpenRouter as an alternative. Ollama Cloud offers fixed-price subs
.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah, in his first podcast since Stripe acquired the company, joins @Replit co-founder Amjad Masad and a16z's Erik Torenberg on why the future of AI is independence and
Kimi K2.6 has achieved the top ranking on OpenRouter's weekly LLM leaderboard, marking a significant achievement for the model. The announcement expresses gratitude to developers using Kimi and indica
🏆 Qwen3.6-Plus just swept OpenRouter’s Daily, Weekly & Trending charts! The trial has wrapped. The model is fully live & production-ready. 📉 Lower latency | 🔥 Top-tier reasoning | 💰 Unmatched $/token
Most popular model on @OpenRouter (10tr tokens) turns out to be a 1.6tr MoE by @Meituan_LongCat (superapp/DoorDash of China) Basically Gemini / Opus 4.6 level 35tr tokens trained entirely on 50k Chine
OpenRouter is a platform that provides API access to multiple large language models and AI services through a unified interface. Sakana AI's Fugu-Ultra appears to be an AI model available through Open
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: OpenRouter raised 113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a 1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago —
Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it raised 113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth fund, to push the envelope fo
OpenStudio is a hybrid AI router that combines local model inference with cloud-based model access through OpenRouter, a unified API providing access to hundreds of AI models through a single endpoint
Two weeks after release, Hy3 preview is #1 on @OpenRouter's weekly leaderboard with 3.66T tokens processed, up 298% week-over-week. #1 in overall usage, tool calls, and coding. 15.4% market share acro
Open Models & a potential looming Haiku-apocalypse? 🚀 chart comparison UI courtesy of @OpenRouter there's a large class of problems where you don't need frontier intelligence. you want cheap, fast, an
No more updating needed for new model releases via Nous Portal and OpenRouter! Hermes will no longer have to be updated to receive model list curation updates for several providers, including Nous Por
Just added 8 new developer-loved providers to @stripe projects: > stripe projects catalog > @huggingface, @Cloudflare, @OpenRouter, @firecrawl, @flydotio, @Amplitude_HQ, @mixpanel, @inngest Your agent
Just launched some great new providers in Stripe Projects (http://projects.dev): @huggingface @Cloudflare @OpenRouter @firecrawl @flydotio @Amplitude_HQ @mixpanel @inngest Many more coming later this
OpenDocRouter is basically OpenRouter for document OCR You can compare and use all your favorite OCR models under a single API / billing interface. They range from some of the lightweight/OSS models (
We just raised $7.7M to kill every subscription for agents. Introducing http://monid.ai, the openrouter for agent tools. Your agents can now: > discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime > use 2,500
I'm tired of watching my compute budget and topping off my Ollama account. It feels like I can use a mix with more flash models on Openrouter (things not all available at Ollama) and control my spend
Together is #1 on @OpenRouter token share across top open coding models, today: 🥇 @Zai_org GLM 5.3 Flash: 29.2% 🥇 @deepseek_ai V4.1 Flash: 25.6% 🥇 @Kimi_Moonshot Kimi K3: 18.9% Running coding agents o
happened simultaneously across the board. OpenCode, OpenRouter, and Ollama all ruined DeepSeek at the exact same moment. They literally turned a brilliant model into a complete idiot overnight. I abso
Inkling and Inkling Small are now served directly by @thinkymachines on OpenRouter, free to use inside agentic harnesses only. Plug them into Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent and more to unlock the fr
DeepSeek V4 Flash is Ollama's fastest growing model ever in token usage, and the most popular model on OpenRouter this week. It’s available in Pi across a range of providers. If you’ve never tried an
The new DeepSeek v4 Flash is now available in Hermes Agent through Nous Portal and OpenRouter 🚀 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API is now LIVE in public beta! 🔷 We’ve massively upgraded its Agent capabili
Interesting data from the OpenRouter Kimi K3 dashboard: @togethercompute offers one of the lowest prices for @Kimi_Moonshot K3 while also achieving one of the highest prompt cache hit rates. Low prici
I think OpenRouter is not a good measure of actual model usage in a world of agentic tools (not that I doubt that Chinese open weights model usage is up, but this could also look like a graph of usage
Xiaomi now processes more AI tokens than OpenAI. On OpenRouter, Chinese models just crossed 45% of all token volume. Anthropic is at 15.3%. OpenAI is at 7.4%. For now, the frontier is American models,
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months — Chinese-built
Nemotron 3 Ultra is taking off on Together AI 🚀 In just days, it's climbed to 35B tokens/day on @OpenRouter. That's the community voting with their tokens for open models that are fast, efficient, and
xAI models now support Zero Data Retention (ZDR) on OpenRouter Developers can now use: • Grok 4.3 • Grok 4.20 • Grok Build 0.1 with Zero Data Retention enabled This means requests aren’t retained by t
GLM 5.2 is already top 10 on OpenRouter this week, sitting right next to Opus 4.8. it's also been really strong in Deep Agents across long-horizon coding, big context, tool use, and verifying work bef
I really do think we'll see a lot of value accrue in AI startups building 'model routing as a service' Not just OpenRouter - this includes a much broader set of verticalized agents and infrastructure.
Open-weight models have overtaken closed models on OpenRouter. 69.1% of token volume now goes to open-weight models. 30.9% to closed. Competition is a discovery procedure — and developers are discover
ComfyUI just added @OpenRouter support. Instead of being locked into a single LLM, you can now access 20+ models directly inside Comfy. More flexibility, less friction, same workflow. Links to the wor
Deploying a Hermes Agent with Fly, Modal, OpenRouter, & Cloudflare 02:43 Managed vs VPS 06:08 Architecture 15:14 Setup 22:23 Deployment 28:00 Access / OIDC 39:57 Hermes and Open WebUI 52:07 Cloudflare