OpenRouter is a platform for providing endpoints for Large Language models.

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Authentication

Set your OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variable. Get your key from here. 
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=***

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Example

Use OpenRouter with your Agent: 
from agno.agent import Agent, RunResponse
from agno.models.openrouter import OpenRouter

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenRouter(id="gpt-4o"),
    markdown=True
)

# Print the response in the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story.")

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Params

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
idstr"gpt-4o"The specific model ID used for generating responses.
namestr"OpenRouter"The name identifier for the OpenRouter agent.
providerstr"OpenRouter:"+idThe provider of the model, combining "OpenRouter" with the model ID.
api_keyOptional[str]-The API key for authenticating requests to the OpenRouter service. Retrieved from the environment variable OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
base_urlstr"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"The base URL for making API requests to the OpenRouter service.
max_tokensint1024The maximum number of tokens to generate in the response.
OpenRouter also supports the params of OpenAI.

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Prompt caching

Prompt caching will happen automatically using our OpenRouter model, when the used provider supports it. In other cases you can activate it via the cache_control header. You can read more about prompt caching with OpenRouter in their docs.