Auto Router
Review
OpenRouter's Auto Router is a meta-routing service rather than a standalone model, offering broad modality support and a 2M context window, but its utility depends entirely on the underlying models it routes to — not directly comparable to a standalone AI model.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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-7b-instruct-v0.1
- 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-5.3-chat
- openai/gpt-oss-120b
- perplexity/sonar
- qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b
- x-ai/grok-3
- x-ai/grok-3-mini
- x-ai/grok-4
- x-ai/grok-4.1-fast
- 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: April 4, 2026 8:54 pm