Netlify AI Gateway adds OpenRouter, exposing 161 open-weight models
Netlify's AI Gateway and Agent Runners now route to OpenRouter, adding roughly 161 open-weight and third-party models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Llama, GLM, Grok, and more) at the same 180-credits-per-$1 metered rate as Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenAI.
AI Gateway supported 3 providers (Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI) with roughly 74 combined models, per the 2026-08-14 capture of Netlify's AI features pricing docs.
AI Gateway supports 4 providers (Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter); OpenRouter alone adds 161 models, confirmed by both the docs.netlify.com AI features pricing table and a new netlify.com/pricing announcement banner reading 'DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and hundreds of open models now available.'
Between the 2026-08-14 and 2026-08-25 captures of Netlify’s pricing and AI-features-docs surfaces, Netlify added OpenRouter as a fourth AI provider behind its AI Gateway and Agent Runners. The AI features pricing docs (docs.netlify.com) now list 161 OpenRouter-routed models spanning DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Llama, GLM, Grok (xAI), Mistral, Perplexity Sonar, and dozens of smaller open-weight and third-party models — none of which appeared in the 2026-08-14 capture. The main netlify.com/pricing page independently corroborates the launch with a new top-of-page announcement banner: “DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and hundreds of open models now available.”
Each OpenRouter model bills through the same metering mechanism Netlify already uses for Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenAI: the provider’s USD token cost is converted to credits at a fixed 180-credits-per-$1 rate, drawn from the same plan credit pool. There is no separate OpenRouter credit pool, plan tier, or markup disclosed. All of Netlify’s own plan prices (Free $0, Personal $9, Pro $20, Enterprise Custom) and the 180-credits-per-$1 conversion were unchanged. Source: docs.netlify.com AI features pricing page and netlify.com/pricing (screenshot diff, 2026-08-14 vs 2026-08-25 captures).
Netlify's AI Gateway and Agent Runners added OpenRouter as a fourth AI provider alongside Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenAI, exposing roughly 161 open-weight and third-party models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Llama, GLM, Grok/xAI, Mistral, Perplexity Sonar, and more) at the same 180-credits-per-$1 metered rate. Corroborated by both the docs.netlify.com AI features pricing table and a new netlify.com/pricing announcement banner reading 'DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and hundreds of open models now available.' Free/Personal/Pro/Enterprise headline prices and the conversion rate were unchanged. Source: docs.netlify.com AI features pricing docs and netlify.com/pricing (screenshot diff, 2026-08-14 vs 2026-08-25 captures).