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Title	Author	Published	Words	HN Pts
In-Region Routing: Keep your data in the US or EU	Cailee Moberg	2026-09-09	945	--
April Release Spotlight	Brian Thomas	2026-04-30	587	--
Simplifying Our Platform Fee	OpenRouter	2025-06-09	130	--
New Privacy-Focused Provider Drop: Venice	OpenRouter	2025-07-15	106	--
Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Actually Costs	Justin Summerville	2026-04-27	1,064	--
Deep Research & Many New Models	OpenRouter	2025-03-06	361	--
Create OpenRouter Accounts via CLI with Stripe Projects	Chris Watts	2026-04-29	540	--
Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto	Chris Clark	2025-10-21	1,438	--
Universal PDF Support	OpenRouter	2025-04-23	140	--
February Release Spotlight	OpenRouter	2026-02-23	195	--
Better Insights, Faster Metrics, and New Developer Power Tools	OpenRouter	2025-05-06	117	--
New Features: Reasoning Streams, Crypto Invoices, End-User IDs & More	OpenRouter	2025-05-28	175	--
Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+	Alex Atallah	2025-12-18	923	--
OpenRouter Outages on February 17 and 19, 2026	OpenRouter Engineering	2026-02-20	863	--
Response Caching: Zero Cost for Identical Requests	Brian Thomas	2026-04-30	648	--
Auto Exacto: Adaptive Quality Routing, On by Default	Tomas Oliva	2026-03-12	1,623	--
Agent SDK: Building Multi-turn Agent Workflows on OpenRouter	Brian Thomas	2026-04-24	751	--
Dev & BYOK Updates: Uptime API + Smarter Key Management	OpenRouter	2025-06-25	72	--
Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router	OpenRouter	2025-01-01	98	--
Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across Apps	OpenRouter	2025-07-29	157	--
Standardized finish reasons	OpenRouter	2025-01-23	65	--
Smarter Charts, Inline SVGs, and Live Usage Accounting	OpenRouter	2025-04-18	191	--
Consistent Web Search and Fetch Across Every Model	David Bai	2026-05-07	851	--
Introducing Workspaces	OpenRouter	2026-04-22	729	--
Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps	OpenRouter	2025-08-04	92	--
Introducing Presets: Manage LLM Configs from Your Dashboard!	OpenRouter	2025-06-26	137	--
December Release Spotlight	OpenRouter	2025-12-18	222	--
Distillable Models and Synthetic Data Pipelines with NeMo Data Designer	Shashank Goyal	2025-12-24	395	--
Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone	OpenRouter	2025-07-10	270	--
January Release Spotlight	OpenRouter	2026-01-09	329	--
Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?	Chris Clark	2025-10-23	1,147	--
Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again	OpenRouter	2025-03-25	280	--
The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2025-08-26	147	--
Introducing Web Search via the API	OpenRouter	2025-01-23	335	--
Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider	OpenRouter	2025-02-04	126	--
1 million free BYOK requests per month	OpenRouter	2025-10-01	362	--
New Stealth Model: "Cypher Alpha"	OpenRouter	2025-07-01	83	--
Passkeys, DevEx Upgrades, and a New Guide for TypeScript Agents	OpenRouter	2025-05-22	132	--
“Stealth” model: Quasar Alpha	OpenRouter	2025-04-03	127	--
Announcing Video Generation	OpenRouter	2026-04-15	586	--
Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha Reveal	OpenRouter	2025-04-14	140	--
"Stealth" model: Optimus Alpha	OpenRouter	2025-04-10	92	--
Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models	OpenRouter	2025-01-24	406	--
Use OpenRouter Models in Cursor: Try it with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2	OpenRouter	2025-07-14	227	--
The 2025 State of AI Report	OpenRouter	2025-12-04	232	--
GIF Prompts, Omni Search, Tool Caching, and BYOK Flags	OpenRouter	2025-06-04	138	--
New Audio APIs for Speech and Transcription	Jacky Liang	2026-05-01	685	--
Human-in-the-Loop Tools for the Agent SDK	Kenny Rogers	2026-05-08	745	--
Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts	OpenRouter	2025-02-12	264	--
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Actually Costs	Justin Summerville	2026-05-04	507	--
GPT-5 is now live	OpenRouter	2025-08-07	238	--
New Provider Drop: Cerebras Is Here	OpenRouter	2025-05-07	76	--
Build Your Own Harness with the Agent SDK	Brian Thomas	2026-04-24	1,149	--
OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B	OpenRouter	2026-05-28	462	--
Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and Costs	Cailee Moberg	2026-05-29	870	--
May Release Spotlight	Nick Livermore	2026-06-01	895	--
A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on …	Jacky Liang	2026-05-20	4,539	--
A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on …	Jacky Liang	2026-06-04	4,786	--
EU AI Act & Colorado ADMT Compliance: Human Oversight for AI Agents	Kenny Rogers	2026-06-08	2,291	--
Advisor: Give Any Model a Lifeline to a Smarter One	Kenny Rogers	2026-06-10	1,079	--
Gemini 2.5 Flash API - Pricing, Quickstart & Provider Comparison	OpenRouter	2026-06-09	2,329	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-11	81	--
Introducing Nitro and Floor Price Shortcuts	OpenRouter	2025-02-12	279	--
A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on …	Jacky Liang	2026-06-04	4,918	272
New Stealth Model: "Cypher Alpha"	OpenRouter	2025-07-01	83	--
Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha Reveal	OpenRouter	2025-04-14	134	--
Audio Inputs and PDF URLs for Apps	OpenRouter	2025-08-04	87	--
Dev & BYOK Updates: Uptime API + Smarter Key Management	OpenRouter	2025-06-25	72	--
New Features: Reasoning Streams, Crypto Invoices, End-User IDs & More	OpenRouter	2025-05-28	190	--
Advisor: Give Any Model a Lifeline to a Smarter One	Kenny Rogers	2026-06-10	1,104	--
The 2025 State of AI Report	OpenRouter	2025-12-04	224	--
Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and Costs	Cailee Moberg	2026-05-29	854	--
EU AI Act & Colorado ADMT Compliance: Human Oversight for AI Agents	Kenny Rogers	2026-06-08	2,361	--
Create OpenRouter Accounts via CLI with Stripe Projects	Chris Watts	2026-04-29	545	--
OpenRouter Outages on February 17 and 19, 2026	OpenRouter Engineering	2026-02-20	873	--
Agent SDK: Building Multi-turn Agent Workflows on OpenRouter	Brian Thomas	2026-04-24	742	--
April Release Spotlight	Brian Thomas	2026-04-30	535	--
Is Implicit Caching Prompt Retention?	Chris Clark	2025-10-23	1,159	--
Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Actually Costs	Justin Summerville	2026-04-27	1,093	--
Introducing Presets: Manage LLM Configs from Your Dashboard!	OpenRouter	2025-06-26	152	--
GPT-5 is now live	OpenRouter	2025-08-07	210	--
Happy New Year! Introducing a new Auto Router	OpenRouter	2025-01-01	90	--
Response Caching: Zero Cost for Identical Requests	Brian Thomas	2026-04-30	662	--
“Stealth” model: Quasar Alpha	OpenRouter	2025-04-03	119	--
January Release Spotlight	OpenRouter	2026-01-09	301	--
What Is an LLM Gateway? The Missing Layer Between Your App and …	OpenRouter	2026-06-11	3,870	--
Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto	Chris Clark	2025-10-21	1,392	--
Passkeys, DevEx Upgrades, and a New Guide for TypeScript Agents	OpenRouter	2025-05-22	134	--
How to Get the Lowest-Cost LLM Inference on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-06-12	2,695	--
GIF Prompts, Omni Search, Tool Caching, and BYOK Flags	OpenRouter	2025-06-04	160	--
May Release Spotlight	Nick Livermore	2026-06-01	844	--
OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B	OpenRouter	2026-05-28	402	--
Never Pay for Empty AI Responses Again	OpenRouter	2025-03-25	276	--
Reasoning Tokens for Thinking Models	OpenRouter	2025-01-24	400	--
New Privacy-Focused Provider Drop: Venice	OpenRouter	2025-07-15	112	--
Smarter Charts, Inline SVGs, and Live Usage Accounting	OpenRouter	2025-04-18	196	--
Introducing Workspaces	OpenRouter	2026-04-22	664	--
Updates to Our Free Tier: Sustaining Accessible AI for Everyone	OpenRouter	2025-07-10	278	--
Universal PDF Support	OpenRouter	2025-04-23	145	--
Human-in-the-Loop Tools for the Agent SDK	Kenny Rogers	2026-05-08	744	--
Standardized finish reasons	OpenRouter	2025-01-23	65	--
Auto Exacto: Adaptive Quality Routing, On by Default	Tomas Oliva	2026-03-12	1,574	--
Introducing Cloudflare as a new provider	OpenRouter	2025-02-04	97	--
Use OpenRouter Models in Cursor: Try it with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2	OpenRouter	2025-07-14	224	--
Announcing Video Generation	OpenRouter	2026-04-15	562	--
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Actually Costs	Justin Summerville	2026-05-04	528	--
Deep Research & Many New Models	OpenRouter	2025-03-06	317	--
Presets: How To Seamlessly Transfer Model Configurations Across Apps	OpenRouter	2025-07-29	184	--
New Provider Drop: Cerebras Is Here	OpenRouter	2025-05-07	72	--
Distillable Models and Synthetic Data Pipelines with NeMo Data Designer	Shashank Goyal	2025-12-24	369	--
December Release Spotlight	OpenRouter	2025-12-18	219	--
Simplifying Our Platform Fee	OpenRouter	2025-06-09	147	--
Consistent Web Search and Fetch Across Every Model	David Bai	2026-05-07	873	--
Introducing Web Search via the API	OpenRouter	2025-01-23	337	--
"Stealth" model: Optimus Alpha	OpenRouter	2025-04-10	84	--
1 million free BYOK requests per month	OpenRouter	2025-10-01	348	--
Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+	Alex Atallah	2025-12-18	934	--
February Release Spotlight	OpenRouter	2026-02-23	178	--
Better Insights, Faster Metrics, and New Developer Power Tools	OpenRouter	2025-05-06	117	--
The First-Ever Image Model Is Up on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2025-08-26	145	--
Build Your Own Harness with the Agent SDK	Brian Thomas	2026-04-24	1,140	--
Gemini 2.5 Flash API - Pricing, Quickstart & Provider Comparison	OpenRouter	2026-06-09	2,372	--
New Audio APIs for Speech and Transcription	Jacky Liang	2026-05-01	623	--
How to Use Hermes Agent with OpenRouter: Setup, Models & Routing	OpenRouter	2026-06-12	2,711	--
How OpenRouter Model Routing Works	OpenRouter	2026-06-12	2,662	--
OpenRouter Reliability & Automatic Failover: How Requests Keep Succeeding	OpenRouter	2026-06-12	3,346	--
Dinner is Served	Afzal Jasani	2026-06-11	1,379	--
Agentic AI Governance: Your API Key Is a Guardrail	OpenRouter	2026-06-15	1,759	--
Free LLM APIs Compared: Rate Limits, Models, and Real Costs (2026)	OpenRouter	2026-06-15	2,889	--
Keep Your Agent Running When Models Disappear	Kenny Rogers and Alex Atallah	2026-06-15	1,972	--
Subagent: Let Your Model Delegate the Busywork	Kenny Rogers	2026-06-16	814	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-18	81	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-18	81	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-18	81	--
Kilo Code + OpenRouter: Setup, Model Routing, and Free Models	OpenRouter	2026-06-17	1,009	--
How to Use Claude Code with OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-06-16	1,423	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-18	81	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-18	81	--
404 — Page Not Found	--	2026-06-18	81	--
How to Use OpenAI Codex CLI with OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-06-17	1,041	--
How to Use OpenRouter With Any Coding Agent or AI Tool	OpenRouter	2026-06-16	1,773	--
Dinner is Served	Afzal Jasani	2026-06-11	1,379	--
Introducing the Unified Image API	Brian Thomas	2026-06-23	762	2
OpenRouter Text-to-Speech: API Tutorial in 5 Minutes	OpenRouter	2026-09-11	2,296	--
The OpenRouter MCP Server	OpenRouter	2026-06-25	1,047	--
The Open Weight Models that Matter: June 2026	Chris Clark	2026-06-27	1,916	--
DeepSeek V4 Is Earning Agentic Token Share	OpenRouter	2026-06-30	954	6
Choosing the Optimal Image Input Detail Level in LLMs	Abhinav Pola	2026-07-07	1,217	--
A New Look for OpenRouter	Julian Thayn	2026-07-13	317	--
Why Use OpenRouter for DeepSeek	OpenRouter	2026-07-13	2,891	--
Every Modality Through One API	OpenRouter	2026-07-16	2,084	--
The Cheapest Token Is a Cached One: Prompt Caching + Sticky Routing	OpenRouter	2026-07-21	2,478	--
Transcription on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-07-22	2,303	--
Classifiers: Track What Your Agents Do and What It Costs	Cailee Moberg	2026-07-24	713	--
Image Generation Models on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-07-27	2,349	--
How to Evaluate LLM Provider Performance Across Latency, Throughput, and Uptime	OpenRouter	2026-07-28	3,320	--
Using OpenRouter With LangChain: ChatOpenRouter Setup Guide	OpenRouter	2026-07-29	2,068	--
Ori Eval: Find the Best Model for What You're Building	Jacky Liang	2026-08-03	1,131	3
Ori Harness: The Best Way to Use OpenRouter with Any Harness	OpenRouter	2026-08-04	456	2
Governing AI Spend Across a Team on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-08-06	3,105	--
Model Routing Powered by Wisdom of the Market	OpenRouter	2026-08-10	1,397	1
Set Up Team AI Spend Controls on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-08-07	2,459	--
Tool Calling Across Any Model: Write the Loop Once, Swap the Model …	OpenRouter	2026-08-12	2,804	--
Live Web Search Benchmarks: Pick the Right Engine, Depth, and Model for …	Ayush Patel	2026-08-12	1,596	2
How to Send an Image to an LLM via API (Vision Guide)	OpenRouter	2026-08-14	2,888	--
OpenRouter Image Generation: A Code-First API Tutorial	OpenRouter	2026-08-17	1,849	--
Understand your AI usage: every agent, model, and request	Cailee Moberg	2026-08-17	1,106	--
OpenRouter is Joining Stripe	OpenRouter	2026-08-19	875	964
Image Benchmarks: See the Capabilities of Every Model	Brian Thomas	2026-08-21	419	--
How to Choose the Best AI Model (Live, in Your Editor)	OpenRouter	2026-08-25	4,488	--
OpenRouter Video Generation API: A Code-First Guide	OpenRouter	2026-08-25	4,276	--
GPT 5.6 Discounts & Jevons Paradox	OpenRouter	2026-08-25	645	--
Give any model a terminal and files	Brian Thomas	2026-09-08	1,544	--
Nano Banana API: Edit Images with Gemini in Code	OpenRouter	2026-09-09	2,285	--
How to Use OpenRouter Presets: Config-as-Code Guide	OpenRouter	2026-09-10	2,003	--
Seedance 2.5 Review: What It's Best At and When to Use It	OpenRouter	2026-09-09	4,602	--
Zero Data Retention (ZDR): What It Means for AI APIs	OpenRouter	2026-09-11	1,824	--
OpenRouter Fusion: How It Works and When to Use It	OpenRouter	2026-09-10	1,953	--
Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion	Brian Thomas	2026-06-12	1,293	3
Image Generation Models Compared: Cost, Edit, Quality	OpenRouter	2026-09-18	4,113	--
Build a Reliable Tool-Calling Agent Loop on OpenRouter	OpenRouter	2026-09-17	3,021	--
Does DeepSeek V4 Have Vision?	OpenRouter	2026-09-16	1,798	--
Case Study: How Descript Took New Models Off the Engineering Queue	OpenRouter	2026-09-15	1,658	--
Case Studies	--	2026-09-15	61	--
LLM-as-a-Judge: Score AI Agent Outputs Automatically	OpenRouter	2026-09-14	2,748	--
Two Hours of Work That Takes a Week	OpenRouter	2026-09-21	769	--
Best Embedding Models in 2026	OpenRouter	2026-09-23	3,717	--
What Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning	OpenRouter	2026-09-22	2,567	--
Is Jev as Accurate as Frontier Models at Classification?	Kenny Rogers	2026-09-22	1,772	--
Batch API: half-price inference by bundling requests	Brian Thomas	2026-09-22	685	--
Jev vs LLM-as-a-Judge	Kenny Rogers	2026-09-21	2,864	--
What Is Jev? TypeSafe's Decision Model Explained for Developers	Kenny Rogers	2026-09-21	4,259	--
Jev vs LLM: When to Use a Decision Model Instead of Generating …	Kenny Rogers	2026-09-19	4,665	--
Is Kimi K3 Open Source? Weights, License, and How to Call It	OpenRouter	2026-09-24	2,101	--
How to Use Jev: Moderation with the Jev API in TypeScript	Kenny Rogers	2026-09-23	9,021	--

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