OpenRouter Launches Next-Generation Auto Router and Auto Code Model Routers

OpenRouter has released a new generation of model routers, Auto Router and Auto Code; the former targets general-purpose Q&A and agents, while the latter targets coding agents. The company says Auto Code's benchmarks are close to Opus 5.5, at 74% lower cost, with p90 latency of just 0.65s, and it can display routing decisions per request. During the testing period, compared with the previous-generation router, invalid tool calls dropped 4x, agent response truncation fell by 50%, and latency improved 3x; Auto Router processes over 2.5T tokens per month from more than 100,000 users.