Advisor: Give Any Model a Lifeline to a Smarter One The openrouter:advisor server tool lets a fast, cheap model consult a stronger one mid-generation. Run GPT-4o Mini for the routine work. Call Claude Fable when it actually matters. June 10, 2026
Gemini 2.5 Flash API - Pricing, Quickstart & Provider Comparison Overpaying for reasoning you don't need? Learn how to configure Gemini 2.5 Flash API thinking budgets, compare providers, and make your first call in 5 minutes. June 9, 2026
EU AI Act & Colorado ADMT Compliance: Human Oversight for AI Agents Use the Agent SDK's human-in-the-loop (HITL) tools to meet AI agent compliance requirements from the EU AI Act, Colorado's Automated Decision-Making Technology law (SB26-189), and NIST AI RMF. June 8, 2026
A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on Claude or Grok? A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks. June 4, 2026
May Release Spotlight Speech and transcription APIs, Model Fusion, private models, enterprise workspace controls, and 20 new model launches including Gemini 3.5 Flash and Claude Opus 4.8. June 1, 2026
Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and Costs Configurable security and governance tools for budget enforcement, zero data retention, model and provider restrictions, prompt injection defense, and data loss prevention. May 29, 2026
OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B OpenRouter has raised a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, AMP PBC, and Pace Capital, alongside existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures. May 28, 2026
Human-in-the-Loop Tools for the Agent SDK A new tool type in the OpenRouter Agent SDK lets your agent auto-resolve routine decisions and pause for human input on high-stakes ones, with two hooks and zero loop-management code. May 8, 2026
Consistent Web Search and Fetch Across Every Model Give any tool-calling model the ability to search the web and fetch page content on its own, with multiple search engines and fetch engines to choose from. May 7, 2026
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Actually Costs OpenAI doubled per-token prices with GPT-5.5 but the model is less verbose. We measured real usage to see the net cost impact. May 4, 2026