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OpenRouter launches Auto Router and Auto Code model routers

According to a post on X by @OpenRouter, the company has introduced Auto Router for general Q&A and agents, and Auto Code for coding agents. OpenRouter claims Auto Code performs similarly to Opus 5.5 at 74% lower cost, with p90 latency of 0.65s. The post says it shows how routing decisions are made per request. The Opus comparison is OpenRouter's own benchmark, not an independent result.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-06T18:00:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-06T22:21:56+00:00
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According to a post on X by @OpenRouter, the company has introduced Auto Router for general Q&A and agents, and Auto Code for coding agents. OpenRouter claims Auto Code performs similarly to Opus 5.5 at 74% lower cost, with p90 latency of 0.65s. The post says it shows how routing decisions are made per request. The Opus comparison is OpenRouter's own benchmark, not an independent result.

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OpenRouter introduces Auto Router for general Q&A and agents plus Auto Code for coding agents. It claims Auto Code benchmarks similar to Opus 5.5 at 74% lower cost with p90 latency of 0.65s, and says it shows how routing decisions are made per request; treat the Opus comparison as OpenRouter’s own bench. Why it...

Developers and companies using AI coding agents could see lower costs and faster responses if the claimed benchmark results hold in real use. Routing each request to a suitable model is a design choice that teams may want to evaluate against their own workloads. Watch for independent testing of the Auto Code claims and for more detail on how the routing decisions are made.

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