Blog
Guides, comparisons, and engineering notes from the team building AnyRouter — one OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of every model.
Changelog
New models added to the catalog — frontier releases as they land.
Mistral Small 4
2026-10-04Mistral's Apache 2.0 hybrid model, which folds its instruct, reasoning and coding lines into one. 256k context, image input, $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M. BYOK.
Faster anyrouter/free
2026-10-03Gateway time on anyrouter/free dropped at the slow end, from about 5 seconds to 1.6 seconds. If the first upstream stays silent, anyrouter/free and anyrouter/auto start a second one and keep whichever sends a token first.
Gemma 3 4B IT
2026-10-03Google's Gemma 3 4B IT joins the catalog: a 4B open-weight instruct model with text and image input, a 131,072-token context window, and multilingual coverage across 140+ languages, available through BYOK.
Guides
How to route every model through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint — setup, coding agents, MCP, free models, and BYOK.
- Claude Code on anyrouter.devSeptember 1, 2026
- Use OpenCode with AnyRouter — CLI launcher or opencode.jsonAugust 19, 2026
- Run Claude Code on AnyRouter — wrapper script or CLIAugust 5, 2026
- Sign in with AnyRouter: let users bring their own LLM accountJuly 19, 2026
- Run the Claude Agent SDK on any modelJuly 19, 2026
- Use AnyRouter with the Vercel AI SDKJuly 19, 2026
- Get a free NVIDIA API key and route it through one URLJuly 19, 2026
- Set up a Hermes agent with AnyRouterJuly 18, 2026
- Point Claude Code at a custom base URLJuly 12, 2026
- Use the OpenAI SDK with any modelJuly 12, 2026
- Cheapest LLM API: how to actually shop for cost per tokenJuly 12, 2026
- Free LLM API access for students and side projectsJuly 12, 2026
- MCP servers for AI agents: what they are and how to connect oneJuly 12, 2026
- One API for every LLMJuly 12, 2026
- BYOK: bring your own keys to every providerJuly 12, 2026
- Run coding agents through one gatewayJuly 12, 2026
- An MCP gateway with managed server accessJuly 12, 2026
- A unified AI API: one endpoint, every provider dialectJuly 12, 2026
- The top website for free LLM models — and how they're actually freeJuly 12, 2026
- Free models, just $2 a monthJuly 12, 2026
Comparisons
How AnyRouter stacks up against calling providers directly or through another gateway — pricing, markup, and lock-in.
- AnyRouter vs OpenRouter: a practical comparisonSeptember 3, 2026
- Calling providers directly vs. routing through one gatewayJuly 12, 2026
- An LLM API without vendor lock-inJuly 12, 2026
- An OpenAI API alternative that keeps your OpenAI codeJuly 12, 2026
- OpenRouter alternatives 2026: how AnyRouter differsJuly 12, 2026
Product
New features, launches, and changes to the gateway — credits, the shared key pool, on-device models, and the dashboard.
- Six decision models, two of them freeOctober 1, 2026
- Latest aliases: name a family, always get a live modelSeptember 30, 2026
- anyr decision puts structured decisions in your terminalSeptember 25, 2026
- Jev Decisions is now on its model pageSeptember 24, 2026
- Space Bunny Alpha is free on AnyRouterSeptember 24, 2026
- A shared key pool, and a free-token pool on the other sideSeptember 9, 2026
- Donate a key for Go — no cardSeptember 1, 2026
- AnyRouter pricing: Free vs Go (the $1 posts are wrong)September 1, 2026
- Ox Alpha is now GLM-5.3-FlashAugust 26, 2026
- Qwen3.8-27B and DeepSeek V4 Flash, 50% offAugust 20, 2026
- CLI update: multiple accounts, terminal key management, and agents that delegateAugust 16, 2026
- Bring your CommandCode credential to AnyRouterAugust 4, 2026
- Bring your Antigravity credential to AnyRouterJuly 25, 2026
- Apple's on-device Foundation Model, now on the AnyRouter APIJuly 11, 2026
- Go on AnyRouter for $2 — or free if you donate a keyJuly 11, 2026
- Donate an idle provider key, earn credits back: a walkthroughJune 29, 2026
- Bring your own keys — every provider behind one APIJune 28, 2026
- A clearer way to pay: Free, Standard, and pay-as-you-goJune 22, 2026
Data
What the traffic actually shows — most-used models, real latency, and the economics of running a router.
Engineering
How the gateway is built on Cloudflare Workers — routing, failover, streaming, and the edge trade-offs behind it.