OpenRouter Launches Next-Generation Model Routers Auto Router and Auto Code
OpenRouter has released a new generation of model routers, including Auto Router for general Q&A and agents, and Auto Code for coding agents. Auto Code's benchmark performance is close to Opus 5.5, at 74% lower cost, with p90 latency of 0.65s, and it can display the routing decision for each request. The company says that during testing, invalid tool calls were reduced by 4x, agent response truncation decreased by 50%, and latency was reduced by 3x compared with the previous generation of routers.
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The original article provides benchmark, cost, and latency data for the new routers, and explains that the routing decision for each request can be inspected, making it easy to judge whether they can replace a single model.
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Introducing our next generation of model routers:
Auto Router for general q&a + agents Auto Code for coding agents
Auto Code benchmarks similar to Opus 5.5 while costing 74% less, they have a p90 latency of just 0.65s, and we show how routing decisions are made per request. https://t.co/SUiV14Mosv