February Release SpotlightBenchmarks on model pages, a new free model router, and improved cost transparency between providers. February 23, 2026
OpenRouter Outages on February 17 and 19, 2026What happened and what have we done to prevent this happening again? February 20, 2026
January Release SpotlightPrioritize 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 DesignerHow to generate license-safe synthetic data workflows for model specialization December 24, 2025
December Release SpotlightResponse Healing for structured outputs, chatroom notifications, long-context model rankings, and we're #1 on Brex's fastest-growing AI infra list! December 18, 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
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, 2025
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