OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a unified API routing platform for large language models that provides a standardized interface for accessing models from multiple providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Users can invoke and switch between models through a single API endpoint. The platform supports model price comparison, usage tracking, and automatic fallback mechanisms, offering developers flexible model selection and cost management capabilities.
Core Facts
Mistral Large 4 is priced at approximately $0.68 per million input tokens and $2.09 per million output tokens, with a 50% discount for the first two weeks.
Configuring DeepSeek Harness requires pasting the API Key into the Edit DeepSeek input field in the model options on the settings page and saving.
The project connects to large language models via OpenRouter, which serves as an AI model gateway supporting unified API calls to multiple large models such as GPT-4, Claude, and Llama.
Timeline (last 90 days)
GLM-5.3's weights are open-source, and 32 providers offer the model on OpenRouter.
Cline itself does not train models, but acts as a client forwarding requests to various providers (such as OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, Google Vertex AI, DigitalOcean, etc.).
In Cline v4.1.24, when the user has not manually specified a model, the two providers Cline and OpenRouter automatically use Claude Sonnet 5.5.
v3.0.71 fixed provider configuration issues: for providers that only read a single environment variable (such as setting `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`), they are directly recognized as configured at startup, and no longer require manual configuration in the TUI.
In the test, all models were called through the same OpenRouter key, the Jev version was pinned to jev-1.13.0, and the code and data have all been open-sourced.
Developers benchmarked multilingual content moderation with 6 models, 25 languages, and 1940 texts, at a total API call cost of $1.84.
On OpenRouter's share chart, Opus 5.5 ranks first.
The OpenRouter share chart reflects the actual distribution of call volume on this API aggregation platform, not the size of the entire market.
The Odysseus application running locally does not mean the model also runs locally; when a cloud model (such as Mistral Large) is selected, data leaves the local machine and is routed through OpenRouter to Mistral's API.
Tom Tunguz found that 84% of tokens on OpenRouter flow to non-state-of-the-art models, and six models offering about 77% of frontier performance at 2.5% of Claude Fable 5's price carry the vast majority of usage.
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Mistral Large 4 is priced at approximately $0.68 per million input tokens and $2.09 per million output tokens, with a 50% discount for the first two weeks.
80%VerifiedConfiguring DeepSeek Harness requires pasting the API Key into the Edit DeepSeek input field in the model options on the settings page and saving.
80%VerifiedThe project connects to large language models via OpenRouter, which serves as an AI model gateway supporting unified API calls to multiple large models such as GPT-4, Claude, and Llama.
80%VerifiedOpenRouter是一个大模型API聚合平台，通过统一的OpenAI兼容接口提供对数十家模型提供商的访问
80%VerifiedSimilar open-source LLM gateway solutions in the industry include LiteLLM, OneAPI, and PortKey.
75%VerifiedProjects such as OpenRouter and LiteLLM are also exploring multi-model orchestration solutions.
75%VerifiedOpenRouter's valuation in May of this year was $1.3 billion.
70%VerifiedN8N natively supports LangChain integration, has built-in AI Agent nodes, and can directly connect to mainstream models such as OpenAI and Anthropic
70%VerifiedMulti-model aggregation platforms such as OpenRouter, Together AI, and Fireworks AI have already emerged in the commercial sector.
70%VerifiedOpenRouter is an AI model aggregation and routing platform that allows developers to access hundreds of models from multiple vendors through a unified OpenAI-compatible API interface.
70%VerifiedDeveloper Primitive reported a generation speed of 142.6 tokens/s for Qwen3 Flash Next running locally.
65%VerifiedOn first run, Harness prompts the user to enter a DeepSeek API key, but users can connect to other providers in the settings, including GPT-series models via OpenCode and local Ollama.
65%VerifiedThe $7.5 billion acquisition price is nearly 6 times OpenRouter's valuation from three months prior.
65%VerifiedOpenRouter is essentially a reverse proxy plus model routing layer, possessing Model Fallback capability and adopting a per-token pass-through pricing mechanism.
65%VerifiedA heterogeneous agent orchestration architecture can have high-capability models handle task decomposition and quality evaluation while low-cost models handle parallel execution, striking a balance between quality and cost.
65%VerifiedThe industry already has model routing service solutions such as OpenRouter and Martian
65%VerifiedLLM routing is an inference optimization strategy that dynamically selects models based on task complexity, cost budget, and response speed requirements; open-source frameworks such as RouteLLM and LiteLLM are already exploring this direction.
65%VerifiedStripe acquired AI model routing company OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.
75%VerifiedStripe acquired OpenRouter for $7 billion.
70%UnverifiedQwen Code CLI支持两种API接入方式：阿里云Model Studio和OpenRouter
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