Releasesby IbisModel Router Benchmarks
GA3 weeks agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 10, 2026
OpenRouter has introduced a Router Index to benchmark model routers based on quality, speed, and cost.
Topics: LLMs, Performance
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Every OpenRouter releaseManage and de-risk your API keys with new Security Center
OpenRouter introduced a Security Center to help users manage and audit API keys. The tool identifies risky keys and allows users to lock access to specific networks.
ElevenLabs is now on OpenRouter
OpenRouter added ElevenLabs models to its catalog, offering nine Text-to-Speech models, including Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo, alongside two Speech-to-Text models like Scribe v2.
Batch API: half-price inference by bundling requests
OpenRouter launched its Batch API, enabling users to submit request batches in a single POST request and receive output within 24 hours at a 50% discount on per-token pricing.
Private Endpoints: Bring Your Fine-Tuned Models and Capacity to OpenRouter
OpenRouter introduced Private Endpoints for Enterprise customers, allowing teams to route fine-tuned models and dedicated deployments through the standard OpenRouter API with organization-only visibility.
In-Region Routing: Keep your data in the US or EU
OpenRouter launched US In-Region Routing via `us.openrouter.ai`, guaranteeing that API requests are decrypted and processed exclusively within United States infrastructure.
Give any model a terminal and files
OpenRouter released the shell server tool and Files API in beta, giving models hosted Linux containers to execute shell commands, manage output, and upload or download files.
Understand your AI usage: every agent, model, and request
OpenRouter has launched the Analytics API and updated its dashboard to help teams track AI spend. Users can view costs per model, save custom charts, click bars to view underlying logs, and query usage data via the terminal.
Model Routing Powered by Wisdom of the Market
OpenRouter has launched a new Auto router that uses market-based model decisions to route tasks. The router outperforms conventional task-based classifiers across a wide spectrum of tasks.
Also shipped on Oct 2, 2026
OpenRouter in October 2026PagerDuty Advance team-level permissions now Generally Available
Building on team-level permissions, Account Admins can now choose which AI agents are enabled for each team. This further empowers teams to roll out AI adoption with confidence. Learn more.
AI Gateway, Web Search API - Introducing Web Search API
Web Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff. At launch, you can choose between three search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup .
KV - Workers KV namespace jurisdictions are now generally available
Jurisdictions for Workers KV namespaces are now generally available. When you create a namespace, you can set a jurisdiction to make sure the namespace's data is only durably stored within that region. Jurisdictions can help you comply with data localization regulations such as GDPR or FedRAMP. Supported jurisdictions are eu , us , and fedramp .
Repository security advisory comments API in public preview
You can now read, add, and edit comments on repository security advisories using the REST API, including advisories created from private vulnerability reports. Until now, the discussion on an advisory was only reachable in the web UI, even though it often holds the most useful triage context on a vulnerability report.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.4-gke.1495000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
You can use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to automatically optimize...
You can use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to automatically optimize container CPU requests for workloads that scale replicas based on CPU utilization. This feature is available in Public Preview on clusters running GKE version 1.36.3-gke.1630000 or later. For more information, see Rightsize HPA workloads with VPA .