Alex Atallah
@alexatallah
CEO @OpenRouter, the largest LLM marketplace. Previously: co-founder & CTO @OpenSea.
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Thanks for having me on the show Harry!
On the numbers: last week we had our first 10-trillion-token day, 69T tokens in the week, and crossed our quadrillionth token processed.
Second Ori launch of the week: easiest way to configure your harness to use OpenRouter
Ori is a Swiss army knife, with Swiss model neutrality. Stay tuned for more!
We spend a ton of time with customers struggling to write evals and figure out the best model for each task.
This CLI wraps that experience into a single tool, allowing you to leverage all 500+ models on OpenRouter, their benchmarks, and real-world usage data.
It's brand new. Give us feedback!
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An independent, digest-verified benchmark found that @OpenRouter beat going directly to the model provider on time-to-first-token 👀
Use Kimi K3 with multiple American providers (and ZDR) right away.
Tip: add ":nitro" at the end to automatically get the fastest in your region 💨
This is finally starting to happen!
Regardless of which router you use... you need to see how it ends up routing!
You can use almost any router out there with OpenRouter. Now you can visualize and iterate on them too.
New and exciting model family on @OpenRouter: Muse Spark, from Meta!
We want to make sure that many choices for AGI surface in the market, not just one.
Things to try:
1. Ask the OpenRouter MCP where in your codebase you should try it
2. Use it in the chatroom:
3. Soon, explore benchmarks that emerge across the ecosystem:
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There are countless useful insights in OpenRouter data, which we make public to the world to improve everyone's use of intelligent models.
DM me if you're obsessed with data and LLMs and want to be a part of something exciting coming up!
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Building on the deepest inference market = automatically getting the best price and performance!
"Which model should I use for this?"
Stop your agent from putting Sonnet 4 and GPT-4o everywhere.
The @OpenRouter MCP helps your agent leverage real-time benchmarks, live pricing data, and empirical usage data across the market
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If you're a researcher looking to:
→ conduct rigorous studies on how multiple models can outperform the frontier
→ leverage data from the largest LLM marketplace (150+ trillion tokens processed per month)
... DM me with your work!
We have an exciting role coming in the future, but might fill it opportunistically.
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We just announced our Fusion API:
- Fable-level performance on deep research tasks, at half the cost
- Better-than-SOTA performance using panels
The future of AI is neurodiversity, not single-model takeovers.
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OpenRouter is the #3# most-purchased service by AgentCard, after Amazon and OpenAI ❤️
"But only frontier models are being used!"
No, it's a Cambrian explosion of models
