Cache rates across the AI landscape have gotten markedly better in 2026. We saw an 85% median cache rate in agentic requests across OpenRouter last month, up from 65% in the beginning of the year. And the vast majority of providers now serve agentic cache at 70% or higher.

Tip: see how different routers in the ecosystem benchmark using openrouter.ai/benchmarks/rou… How different routers cost relative to frontier 👇

Agentic usage is up 34x since the start of February 2026. Agentic usage is also now about 8x higher than human usage across OpenRouter on a weekly basis.

Mercury 3 is live on OpenRouter! @_inception_ai's new diffusion model generates 1,000+ tok/s with 1M context, 4x more than Mercury 2.5. Inception reports it beats GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on IFBench, GPQA Diamond, and SWE-Bench Atlas. 50% off at launch: $0.10/M in, $0.35/M out

Stealth model reveal 🐰 Space Bunny was OpenRouter’s #1 model for 10 straight days, processing 56.7T tokens! The most of any stealth model we’ve run. Space Bunny hopped off OpenRouter on Oct 5. It's back today as @MiniMax_AI's M3.1 Flash, and it's free for the next 72 hours.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is live on OpenRouter with DeepSeek as the first provider and many more providers on the way. @deepseek_ai's update to V4.1 Flash is more token efficient and shows major gains in agentic benchmarks. Use it now: openrouter.ai/deepseek/deeps…

Open-weight models processed 72% of tokens across OpenRouter last week. Open-weight models have seen more than 50% of tokens across the platform since mid-April, but the majority of customer spend remains on closed-weight models.

Krea 3 leaves alone what you didn't ask it to touch: build a new scene around a product and the label stays sharp, or give it character references and keep the same cast across a whole set.

Krea 3 is live on OpenRouter @krea_ai's new image editing model takes 1–4 reference images plus a prompt and returns an edited image at native 2K, most edits in under 8 seconds end to end openrouter.ai/krea/k3-edit

Moondream 3 Preview and Moondream 3.1 from @moondreamai are now on OpenRouter, served by @PrimeIntellect Object detection and pointing work in plain chat: attach one image and start your message with /detect {"object":"coffee cup"} or /point {"object":"croissant"}