OpenRouter rebuilds provider routing to weigh speed and reliability alongside price

1. 1:06 PM
   OpenRouter@OpenRouterOfficial

   OpenRouter explains how it rebuilt its provider routing

   AIOpenRouter's announcement post links to a blog entry describing how the company rebuilt its provider routing. The post itself gives no technical details, so the summary cannot state what changed.

2. 1:06 PM
   OpenRouter@OpenRouterOfficial

   OpenRouter overhauls its provider router to favor quality, speed and reliability

   AIOpenRouter says it has shipped its biggest improvement to its provider router since founding the company. The router previously prioritized mostly on price, but now rewards providers that deliver the best-quality inference for a request's actual cost, favoring speed and reliability alongside low prices.

   

1. OpenRouter BlogOfficialPick

   OpenRouter rebuilds provider routing to weigh speed and reliability alongside price

   AIOpenRouter says its new provider routing algorithm picks endpoints by a real-time Routing Cost that combines effective price, waiting time and retry cost. In a one-week switchback experiment over 24 million requests, it cut TTFT p50 by 16.9%, raised throughput p50 by 16.3% and reduced requests hitting a 429 by 67%, at a 6.0% higher cost per K requests.

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