Guardrails: Protect your Agents, Data, and CostsConfigurable 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 BOpenRouter 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 SDKA 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 ModelGive 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 CostsOpenAI 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
New Audio APIs for Speech and TranscriptionText-to-speech and transcription are now live on OpenRouter. Two new endpoints give you access to speech synthesis and audio transcription across multiple providers, under one API.May 1, 2026
Response Caching: Zero Cost for Identical RequestsIntroducing the new Response Caching header: enables caching identical API requests so responses come back in a tiny fraction of the time, at zero cost.April 30, 2026
April Release SpotlightVideo generation, workspaces, an agent SDK, reranker models, and a wave of frontier model launches.April 30, 2026
Create OpenRouter Accounts via CLI with Stripe ProjectsRun `stripe projects add openrouter/api` to get an OpenRouter account, an API key, and Stripe billing, all from the command line. Your agents can do it too.April 29, 2026
Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Actually CostsAnthropic changed the tokenizer in Opus 4.7. We looked at usage that shifted from 4.6 to 4.7 to measure exactly how it affects costs.April 27, 2026