Key Info
OpenRouter has shipped what it calls its biggest improvement to its provider router since the company was founded, replacing a mostly price-based priority with a system that rewards the best quality inference for the actual cost of a request.
Highlights
- Previously, routing prioritized mostly on price; the new router weighs quality against the real cost of each request.
- The goal is to keep requests cheap while also being fast and reliable.
- Providers can now distinguish themselves across axes such as cost, throughput, and accuracy.
- A provider (EBorgnia) says the change pushed them to improve serving engines in ways that help end users, and praised OpenRouter's transparency during the rollout.