Announcements and Blog

Build Your Own Harness with the Agent SDK

Use the create-agent-tui skill to scaffold a personalized coding agent in minutes. Pick your tools, customize the look, and ship something that works the way you want it to.

April 24, 2026

Agent SDK: Building Multi-turn Agent Workflows on OpenRouter

The OpenRouter Agent SDK gives you callModel: one function that turns a chat completion into a multi-step agent with tool calls, stop conditions, and cost tracking across 300+ models.

April 24, 2026

Introducing Workspaces

Organize your OpenRouter projects into separate environments, each with its own API keys, routing defaults, guardrails, and observability.

April 22, 2026

Announcing Video Generation

Video generation is now live on OpenRouter. One API gives you access to the top video models.

April 15, 2026

Auto Exacto: Adaptive Quality Routing, On by Default

Auto Exacto re-evaluates providers every 5 minutes across throughput, tool-call telemetry, and benchmark scores. For requests that include tools, it's on by default.

March 12, 2026

February Release Spotlight

Benchmarks on model pages, a new free model router, and improved cost transparency between providers.

February 23, 2026

OpenRouter Outages on February 17 and 19, 2026

What happened and what have we done to prevent this happening again?

February 20, 2026

January Release Spotlight

Prioritize fast LLMs, explore providers, customize the auto router, load skills in the SDK, and big performance improvements.

January 9, 2026

Distillable Models and Synthetic Data Pipelines with NeMo Data Designer

How to generate license-safe synthetic data workflows for model specialization

December 24, 2025

Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+

Today we're launching Response Healing, a new feature on OpenRouter that automatically fixes malformed JSON responses from LLMs before they reach your application

December 18, 2025

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