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OpenRouter

Unified access platform for large language models

openrouter.ai
Founded year
2023
Company type
Private company
Number of employees
10–70

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Latest news about OpenRouter

In short: OpenRouter launched high-performance models like GPT-5.5 and Grok-4.3 while expanding its toolset with an Agent SDK and video generation features.

Company announcements

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    OpenRouter launches Recraft V4 image models

    Recraft V4 offers high aesthetics for creative work; V4 Pro provides production-scale resolution. V3 includes text layout features.

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    OpenRouter launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

    It offers multimodal capabilities, 1M context, selectable thinking levels at $0.25/M in / $1.50/M out. Supports service_tier for cost/latency tradeoffs. Preview deprecates soon.

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    OpenRouter introduces web_search and web_fetch tools

    These server-side tools enable consistent web search and page fetching across all models without client-side implementation. They support multiple engines and configurations like domain filtering.

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    OpenRouter analyzes GPT-5.5 cost increases

    GPT-5.5 doubles prices over GPT-5.4, but shorter outputs for long prompts mitigate rises. Observed cost increases range 49-92% in switcher cohort.

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