A daily log of product changes, improvements, and new model releases on OpenRouter

Product changes

  • Indian e-mandate payments — Added support for Indian e-mandate payments, enabling recurring off-session billing for users with Indian bank cards.
  • Design Arena benchmarks — Model detail pages now display Design Arena benchmark rankings with bar chart visualizations.
  • Fusion (beta)Fusion is now accessible from the navigation bar, letting you run prompts across multiple models simultaneously.
  • Uptime page improvements — The Uptime page now has a sort dropdown and improved tick filling for better readability.
  • Generation ID search — Searching by generation ID in activity logs now jumps directly to the detail pane.
  • allowed_tools in tool_choice — The Responses API now supports allowed_tools in tool_choice, letting you restrict which tools the model can call.
  • Uptime in endpoints APIuptime_last_5m and uptime_last_1d fields are now available in the public endpoints API.

New models