OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified interface for accessing various LLM APIs, including models from OpenAI, Meta, Perplexity, and others. It follows the OpenAI API format - see our OpenAI provider documentation for base API details.

Setup

Get your API key from OpenRouter
Set the OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variable or specify apiKey in your config

Popular current models

OpenRouter's catalog changes quickly. These are current popular and recent model IDs that work well as starting points. Context lengths are from the OpenRouter catalog at time of writing — check OpenRouter Models (or GET /api/v1/models) for live values.

Model ID	Context (tokens)	Good for
openai/gpt-5.4	1,050,000	Highest-quality general evaluation
anthropic/claude-opus-4.7	1,000,000	Long-running agentic workflows
openai/gpt-5.4-mini	400,000	Fast, lower-cost GPT-5 workflows
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5	200,000	Lower-latency Claude runs
google/gemini-2.5-pro	1,048,576	Reasoning-heavy tasks
google/gemini-2.5-flash	1,048,576	Fast multimodal and general chat
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick	1,048,576	Popular open-weight frontier model
deepseek/deepseek-v3.2	163,840	Cost-efficient reasoning and tools
mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct	128,000	Compact Mistral general use
qwen/qwen3-32b	40,960	Strong open multilingual model

For the full catalog of 300+ models and current pricing, visit OpenRouter Models.

Basic Configuration

yaml

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://promptfoo.dev/config-schema.json
providers:
  - id: openrouter:openai/gpt-5.4
    config:
      temperature: 0.7
      max_tokens: 1000

  - id: openrouter:anthropic/claude-opus-4.7
    config:
      max_tokens: 2000

  - id: openrouter:google/gemini-2.5-flash
    config:
      temperature: 0.7
      max_tokens: 4000

If you route OpenRouter traffic through a proxy or OpenRouter-compatible gateway, set apiBaseUrl in the provider config. Precedence is config.apiBaseUrl → the hardcoded OpenRouter default (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1); the generic OpenAI OPENAI_API_BASE_URL / OPENAI_BASE_URL env fallbacks are not consulted for this provider.

The same pattern applies to apiKeyEnvar — set it to read your API key from a custom environment variable name (default OPENROUTER_API_KEY).

yaml

providers:
  - id: openrouter:openai/gpt-5.4
    config:
      apiBaseUrl: https://proxy.example.com/openrouter/api/v1
      apiKeyEnvar: MY_PROXY_KEY # optional: read the Bearer token from $MY_PROXY_KEY

Features

Access to 300+ models through a single API
Mix free and paid models in your evaluations
Support for text and multimodal (vision) models
Compatible with OpenAI API format
Pay-as-you-go pricing

Thinking/Reasoning Models

Some models like Gemini 2.5 Pro include thinking tokens in their responses. You can control whether these are shown using the showThinking parameter:

yaml

providers:
  - id: openrouter:google/gemini-2.5-pro
    config:
      showThinking: false # Hide thinking content from output (default: true)

When showThinking is true (default), the output includes thinking content:

Thinking: <reasoning process>

<actual response>