OpenRouter News

[AINews] New AI Infra decacorns: Fireworks, Baseten (with OpenRouter on the way)

it's funding news, but it's good news.

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the multi-AI-model future is here.

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day.

Owl Alpha (openrouter/owl-alpha)

Owl Alpha is a high-performance foundation model designed for agentic workloads. Natively supports tool use, and long-context tasks, with strong performance in code generation, automated workflows, and complex instruction execution....

Pareto Code Router (openrouter/pareto-code)

The Pareto Router is a way to have OpenRouter always pick a strong coding model for your needs without committing to a specific one. You express a single `min_coding_score` preference...

[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)

Yay Kimi!!!

Elephant (openrouter/elephant-alpha)

Elephant Alpha is a 100B-parameter text model focused on intelligence efficiency, delivering strong reasoning performance while minimizing token usage. It supports a 256K context window with up to 32K output...

New GPT $100 plan and Anthropic's managed agents

[AINews] A quiet April Fools

a quiet day

Announcing comprehensive provider level pricing

Hunter Alpha (openrouter/hunter-alpha)

Hunter Alpha is a 1 Trillion parameter + 1M token context frontier intelligence model built for agentic use. It excels at long-horizon planning, complex reasoning, and sustained multi-step task execution, with the reliability and instruction-following precision that frameworks like OpenClaw need. **Note:** All prompts and completions for this model are logged by the provider and may be used to improve the model.

Healer Alpha (openrouter/healer-alpha)

Healer Alpha is a frontier omni-modal model with vision, hearing, reasoning, and action capabilities. It brings the full power of agentic intelligence into the real world: natively perceiving visual and audio inputs, reasoning across modalities, and executing complex multi-step tasks with precision and reliability. **Note:** All prompts and completions for this model are logged by the provider and may be used to improve the model.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview)

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows. Building on the multimodal foundation of the Gemini 3 series, it combines high-precision reasoning across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window. Reasoning Details must be preserved when using multi-turn tool calling, see our docs here: https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#preserving-reasoning. The 3.1 update introduces measurable gains in SWE benchmarks and real-world coding environments, along with stronger autonomous task execution in structured domains such as finance and spreadsheet-based workflows. Designed for advanced development and agentic systems, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview improves long-horizon stability and tool orchestration while increasing token efficiency. It introduces a new medium thinking level to better balance cost, speed, and performance. The model excels in agentic coding, structured planning, multimodal analysis, and workflow automation, making it well-suited for autonomous agents, financial modeling, spreadsheet automation, and high-context enterprise tasks.

[AINews] new Gemini 3 Deep Think, Anthropic $30B @ $380B, GPT-5.3-Codex Spark, MiniMax M2.5

There's too much going on!

[AINews] Z.ai GLM-5: New SOTA Open Weights LLM

We have Opus 4.5 at home

Aurora Alpha (openrouter/aurora-alpha)

This is a cloaked model provided to the community to gather feedback. A reasoning model designed for speed. It is built for coding assistants, real-time conversational applications, and agentic workflows. Default reasoning effort is set to medium for fast responses. For agentic coding use cases, we recommend changing effort to high. Note: All prompts and completions for this model are logged by the provider and may be used to improve the model.

Pony Alpha (openrouter/pony-alpha)

Pony is a cutting-edge foundation model with strong performance in coding, agentic workflows, reasoning, and roleplay, making it well suited for hands-on coding and real-world use. **Note:** All prompts and completions for this model are logged by the provider and may be used to improve the model.

Sourceful: Riverflow V2 Fast (sourceful/riverflow-v2-fast)

Riverflow V2 Fast is the fastest variant of Sourceful's Riverflow 2.0 lineup, best for production deployments and latency-critical workflows. The Riverflow 2.0 series represents SOTA performance on image generation and editing tasks, using an integrated reasoning model to boost reliability and tackle complex challenges. Pricing is $0.02 per 1K output image and $0.04 per 2K output image. Does not support 4K image output. Additional features: - Custom font rendering via font_inputs ($0.03/font, max 2) - Image enhancement via super_resolution_references ($0.20/reference, max 4) See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation Note: Sourceful imposes a 4.5MB request size limit, therefore it is highly recommended to pass image URLs instead of Base64 data.

Free Models (openrouter/free)

The simplest way to get free inference. openrouter/free is a router that selects free models at random from the models available on OpenRouter. The router smartly filters for models that support features needed for your request such as image understanding, tool calling, structured outputs and more.

[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100 parallel Agent Swarm manager

China takes another huge leap ahead in open models