OpenRouter Launches Auto Router and Auto Code, a New Generation of Model Routers

OpenRouter has released a new generation of model routers, Auto Router and Auto Code, aimed respectively at general Q&A and Agents, and at coding Agents. The company says Auto Code's benchmark performance is close to Opus 5.5, at 74% lower cost, with p90 latency of only 0.65s, and it can show the routing decision process per request. During testing, compared with the previous generation of routers, invalid tool calls dropped 4x, Agent response truncation fell by 50%, and latency was reduced 3x; Auto Router processes 2.5T tokens per month from more than 100,000 people.