A daily log of product changes, improvements, and new model releases on OpenRouter
Product changes
- Response caching — Response caching is now available. Cache identical LLM requests to save cost and latency in agent workflows and testing.
- Presets: cache configuration UI — Presets now include a cache configuration section to control response caching behavior.
- Web search SDK fallback — Anthropic
web_searchtools are automatically converted toopenrouter:web_searchfor SDK compatibility. - DeepSeek V4 thinking support — DeepSeek V4 models now support the
thinkingparameter. - Text-to-speech pricing and format fixes — Improved text-to-speech pricing display and fixed MP3 format rejection for Gemini text-to-speech. Text-to-speech docs
- Privacy settings banner — A banner now appears on the Models page when all model providers are hidden via privacy settings.