OpenRouter launches Batch API with 50% off for bundled inference

OpenRouter 推出 Batch API，批量推理可享半价

OpenRouter's new Batch API lets you bundle requests so providers can process them within a 24-hour window, cutting per-token price by 50% or more. Across 230k+ batches during a two-week beta, the median finished in 7 minutes and 90% within an hour. Submission time matters more than batch size: batches sent 5am–noon Pacific are slowest, with the worst tenth taking 2–4.5 hours; after 6pm Pacific, 90% finish under 50 minutes. Over 70 models are supported for chat completions, messages, and embeddings—good for labeling, back-filling vectors, eval scoring, or summarizing ticket backlogs.