GIF Prompts, Omni Search, Tool Caching, and BYOK Flags
Several highly requested developer features just landed—making OpenRouter smoother, smarter, and faster to build with:
🖼️ GIF Support Across Models You can now send image/gif prompts to OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, and Llama models. No need to pre-convert—just send your animations directly.
🔍 Provider Pages in Omni-Search Hit ⌘/Ctrl + K, type any provider name, and jump straight to their page to view available models, pricing, and uptime.
⚡ Anthropic Tool-Call Caching We now support caching for tool calls with Anthropic, which significantly reduces both latency and token usage.
🔑 is_byok
Flag in Usage
When you include usage": { "include": true }
in your request, the response now includes an is_byok
flag—helping you confirm whether a BYOK (bring your own key) setup was used.