Auto Router
The OpenRouter Auto Router is a routing layer rather than a standalone model, with no benchmark data of its own; while it supports a broad range of modalities and a massive context window, it cannot be scored on capability and is best treated as infrastructure rather than a model in its own right.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
Our methodology takes into account a range of factors including pricing, functionality, capabilities, benchmark performance, and real-world applicability. Rankings are reviewed and updated regularly as new models are released. Issues with our rankings? Contact us
Your prompt will be processed by a meta-model and routed to one of dozens of models (see below), optimizing for the best possible output. To see which model was used, visit Activity, or read the model attribute of the response. Your response will be priced at the same rate as the routed model. Learn more, including how to customize the models for routing, in our docs. Requests will be routed to the following models:
- anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
- anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
- anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
- anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
- deepseek/deepseek-r1
- google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- google/gemini-3-flash-preview
- google/gemini-3-pro-preview
- google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview
- meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct
- minimax/minimax-m2.5
- mistralai/codestral-2508
- mistralai/mistral-large
- mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1
- mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506
- moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
- moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
- openai/gpt-5
- openai/gpt-5-mini
- openai/gpt-5-nano
- openai/gpt-5.1
- openai/gpt-5.2
- openai/gpt-5.2-pro
- openai/gpt-oss-120b
- perplexity/sonar
- qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b
- x-ai/grok-3
- x-ai/grok-3-mini
- x-ai/grok-4
- z-ai/glm-5
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + File + Audio + Video → Text + Image |
| Tokenizer | Router |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
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External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 13, 2026 7:52 pm