A daily log of product changes, improvements, and new model releases on OpenRouter
Product changes
- Private Models Beta — Published a new Private Models page covering the beta for routing to your own custom, fine-tuned, or dedicated model endpoints via the standard completions and responses endpoints.
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 Fast mode —
speed: "fast"now routes Claude Opus 4.7 to Anthropic’s new fast-mode endpoint; the fast permaslug is also directly callable asanthropic/claude-opus-4.7-fast. - BYOK keys grouped by priority — The BYOK provider detail page now splits keys into a Prioritized section (tried in order) and a Fallback section (tried only after OpenRouter credits), each independently reorderable via drag-and-drop. Docs
- Adaptive Exa highlights for web search — The default web-search server tool and
webplugin now request adaptive highlights from Exa (roughly 2–4K characters per result) instead of a fixed 15K-character cap; setsearch_context_sizetolow,medium, orhighto opt back into a larger fixed budget. - Fixed: playground preserves uploaded images after video generation — Submitting a video generation in the playground no longer clears the images you previously attached to the prompt.
- Fixed: model compare page on mobile — The model compare page now scrolls horizontally with a sticky header row on narrow screens, and the “Add model” trigger no longer surfaces Quick suggestions.
