A daily log of product changes, improvements, and new model releases on OpenRouter
Product changes
- Speech-to-Text (Transcription) models added — A
/api/v1/audio/transcriptionsendpoint is now available along with SDK support. See the Transcription docs for details. - Speech-to-text quickstart examples — Added transcription code samples across all supported SDK languages in the Quickstart.
- Guardrail indicator on logs — The Activity logs table now shows which requests triggered a guardrail.
- Copy BYOK provider key to workspace — You can now duplicate a provider key into a workspace from the BYOK settings.
- API key detail sheet — Clicking an API key now opens a detail sheet with usage stats and metadata.
- Web tool URL preview in Playground — The Playground now surfaces the fetched URL for web search tool calls and expands details on click.
- Nitro variant throughput sorting — The Pareto router now sorts
:nitrovariant model selection by throughput for faster inference.