OpenRouter rebuilds default provider routing algorithm
What happened
Reported October 28: OpenRouter updated its default provider routing algorithm to weigh actual price, latency, throughput, reliability and output quality when picking a provider. Users on default routing for enabled models need no code changes. In a one-week experiment, first-token latency (TTFT) p50 fell 16.9%, throughput p50 rose 16.3% and 429 errors dropped 67%, while cost per request rose 6.0%. Sessions still stick to their original provider to keep caches warm, and users can set provider.sort to price to keep low-price-first routing.
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- AI HOT · ProductsOpenRouter 重建默认路由算法：TTFT 降低 16.9%，429 错误减少 67%
OpenRouter 更新默认服务商路由算法，将实际价格、延迟、吞吐量、可靠性和输出质量纳入选择，已启用模型的默认路由用户无需修改代码。一周实验显示，TTFT p50 降低 16.9%，吞吐量 p50 提高 16.3%，429 错误减少 67%，每请求成本增加 6.0%。会话仍固定到原服务商以保持缓存热度，用户也可通过 provider.sort 设置 price 保留低价优先路由。
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