Releasesby IbisDecember Release Spotlight
Update10 months agoUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
OpenRouter released updates including Response Healing for structured outputs, chatroom notifications, and long-context model rankings.
Topics: LLMs
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Every OpenRouter releaseResponse Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80%+
Response Healing is a new feature that automatically corrects malformed JSON responses from LLMs before they reach the application.
January Release Spotlight
OpenRouter released updates including auto-router customization, SDK skill loading, and general performance improvements for LLM access.
February Release Spotlight
OpenRouter has added model benchmarks to its pages, introduced a free model router, and improved cost transparency across providers.
October 2025 BYOK platform fee update
OpenRouter has updated the platform fee for its Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) service.
Auto Exacto: Adaptive Quality Routing, On by Default
OpenRouter has enabled Auto Exacto, an adaptive quality routing system, by default for requests involving tools. It re-evaluates providers every 5 minutes based on performance metrics.
Announcing Video Generation
OpenRouter launched a video generation API that provides access to top video models through a single interface.
Introducing Workspaces
OpenRouter now supports Workspaces, allowing users to organize projects into separate environments. Each workspace features independent API keys, routing defaults, guardrails, and observability settings.
Agent SDK: Building Multi-turn Agent Workflows on OpenRouter
The OpenRouter Agent SDK provides a callModel function to build multi-turn agent workflows. It supports tool calls, stop conditions, and cost tracking across over 400 models.
Also shipped on Dec 18, 2025
OpenRouter in December 2025WAF Release - 2025-12-18
This week's release focuses on improvements to existing detections to enhance coverage. Key Findings Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage.
Release of OCR 3
OCR 3 (mistral-ocr-2512) has been released.
Process large-scale inference workloads asynchronously with the new Batch API and Files API
Process large-scale inference workloads asynchronously with the new Batch API and Files API. Submit up to 50,000 requests in a single batch job and get 50% cost savings. Learn more in our Batch guide.
AI Crawl Control - New AI Crawl Control Overview tab
The Overview tab is now the default view in AI Crawl Control. The previous default view with controls for individual AI crawlers is available in the Crawlers tab. What's new Executive summary , Monitor total requests, volume change, most common status code, most popular path, and high-volume activity Operator grouping , Track crawlers by their operating...
Analytics - Improved accuracy of cached request classification in analytics
The cached/uncached classification logic used in Zone Overview analytics has been updated to improve accuracy. Previously, requests were classified as "cached" based on an overly broad condition that included blocked 403 responses, Snippets requests, and other non-cache request types.
R2, R2 Data Catalog - R2 Data Catalog now supports automatic snapshot expiration
R2 Data Catalog now supports automatic snapshot expiration for Apache Iceberg tables. In Apache Iceberg, a snapshot is metadata that represents the state of a table at a given point in time. Every mutation creates a new snapshot which enable powerful features like time travel queries and rollback capabilities but will accumulate over time.