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OpenRouter Changelog

Release notes, new features, and updates tracked daily. Sourced from the official OpenRouter changelog.

  1. Research

    DeepSeek's DeepSeek V4 Flash leads OpenRouter with 5.35T tokens (6 Jul 2026)

    DeepSeek V4 Flash leads OpenRouter rankings for the week of 2026-07-06, followed by Hy3 preview and DeepSeek V4 Pro.

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  2. Research

    DeepSeek's DeepSeek V4 Flash leads OpenRouter with 4.7T tokens (29 Jun 2026)

    DeepSeek V4 Flash leads OpenRouter rankings for the week of 2026-06-29, followed by Hy3 preview and Claude Opus 4.7.

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  3. Launch

    Baidu launches Qianfan-OCR-Fast on OpenRouter (66k context, $0.68/M in, $2.81/M out)

    Baidu launches Qianfan-OCR-Fast, a multimodal OCR model, on OpenRouter. It supports 66k context at $0.68/M input tokens and $2.81/M output tokens.

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  4. Model Release

    DeepSeek V4 Flash: a free, long-context AI model now on OpenRouter

    OpenRouter adds DeepSeek V4 Flash for free with 256k context. The efficiency-optimized MoE model has 284B total parameters, 13B active, and supports 1M-token context for fast inference.

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  5. Launch

    OpenRouter launches Perceptron Mk1 with 33k context at $0.15/M input, $1.50/M output

    OpenRouter launched Perceptron Mk1, a vision-language model for video and embodied reasoning. It processes images and videos with 33k context at $0.15/M input and $1.50/M output.

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  6. Launch

    OpenRouter adds Tencent Hunyuan model with 262K context window

    OpenRouter adds Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 preview, a mixture-of-experts model with 262K context window. Pricing is $0.07/M input tokens and $0.26/M output tokens with configurable reasoning levels.

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  7. Launch

    InclusionAI launches free Ring-2.6-1T (262k context) on OpenRouter

    InclusionAI launches free Ring-2.6-1T on OpenRouter. The 1T-parameter-scale model uses 63B active parameters and supports coding agents and tool use.

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  8. Launch

    Tencent Hy3 preview (free) now on OpenRouter (262k context)

    OpenRouter adds Tencent's free Hy3 preview, a high-efficiency MoE model for agentic workflows. It supports 262k context and configurable reasoning levels.

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  9. Launch

    OpenRouter adds Qwen 3.5 Plus (1M context, low-cost chat model)

    OpenRouter adds Alibaba's Qwen3.5 Plus multimodal model with 1M token context. It processes text, image, and video inputs at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens.

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  10. Launch

    Poolside Laguna M.1 launches free on OpenRouter with 128k context

    Poolside's Laguna M.1 coding model is now free to use on OpenRouter, with a 128k context window and zero per-token cost. The Poolside coding-assistant product itself remains enterprise-only (on-prem or VPC deployment).

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  11. Launch

    OpenRouter launches a live test feature for AI models

    OpenRouter launched a live test environment. The feature enables real-time testing of model routing across multiple AI providers.

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