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Auto Router (Beta)

openrouter/auto-beta

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Auto Router (Beta) is a task-aware router from OpenRouter. It classifies each request, then routes it the most popular model for that task based on aggregate spend, filtered by your selected cost-quality tradeoff.

To see which model was used, visit Activity, or read the model attribute of the response. Your response will be priced at the same rate as the routed model.

Learn more, including how to customize the models for routing, in our docs. For another way to route, see Pareto Code.

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About Auto Router (Beta)

OpenRouter makes Auto Router (Beta) by OpenRouter available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID openrouter/auto-beta.

Auto Router (Beta) accepts text, images, audio, files such as PDFs and video and returns text and images. It has a 2,000,000-token context window.

It was released on July 17, 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Auto Router (Beta) is a task-aware router from OpenRouter. It classifies each request, then routes it the most popular model for that task based on aggregate spend, filtered by your selected cost-quality tradeoff. To see which model was used, visit Activity, or read the model attribute of the response. Your response will be priced at the same rate as the routed model.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Auto Router (Beta) is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens.

Auto Router (Beta) has a 2,000,000 token context window.

Auto Router (Beta) accepts text, images, audio, files such as PDFs and video as input and returns text and images.

Auto Router (Beta) was released on July 17, 2026.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Top models used by Auto Router (Beta)

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