A daily log of product changes, improvements, and new model releases on OpenRouter
Product changes
- More SDK examples on model pages — Model page API tabs now include OpenRouter Python/Go and Anthropic TS/Go SDK examples, grouped by SDK category.
- Activity explorer cache hit rate — Added
cache_hit_ratemetric to the Activity Explorer for monitoring cache performance across your requests. - Video generation webhooks — Video generation webhook payloads now include
generation_id, model, and usage data for richer event handling. - Gemini caching guidance — Updated caching docs with more explicit guidance on caching behavior.
- Stripe Projects integration guide — Published a guide for integrating OpenRouter via Stripe Projects CLI.
- Spend display consistency — Spend values under $1K now consistently show 2 decimal places across all UI surfaces.
- Auto Router docs link fix — Fixed the broken “Learn more” link on the Auto Router configuration page.
- Mobile sidebar fix — Fixed mobile sidebar z-index so it correctly appears above page content.
- Anthropic
effortxhigh — Theoutput_config.effortparameter now supports thexhighlevel for maximum reasoning effort on Claude models. - Context management edits — Anthropic
context_management.applied_editsare now passed through in responses, showing what context changes the model made.