model-routing
Sakana's Fugu Max sells a model that hands your request to other models, at $2 per million tokens in News
Sakana AI launched Fugu Max on 11 September 2026, a model trained to route each task to a pool of open-weight and specialist models and combine the results, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; the pool is not published and all quality claims are Sakana's own.
A proxy with 49,000 stars keeps Claude Code and swaps the model News
Free Claude Code, an MIT-licensed local proxy that lets Claude Code talk to roughly 50 other model providers while preserving Anthropic's wire protocol, has passed 49,000 GitHub stars, and its per-tier routing shows exactly which layer users actually value.
NVIDIA built a 30B model for the boring half of agent work News
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per token and is aimed at the tool calls and validation steps that consume most of a long-running agent's time.
Sakana Fugu Ultra v2 Tool
The higher-priced sibling of Fugu Max, also released 11 September, at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens (rising above 272,000 tokens of context). Sakana says Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra are not in its model pool. Available through OpenRouter as sakana/fugu-ultra-v2.
Sakana Fugu Max Tool
Launched 11 September: a model trained to split each request across a pool of other models and combine the answers, sold as one OpenAI-compatible API at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a 1 million token context. The pool is not published beyond NVIDIA's Nemotron family, all quality claims are Sakana's own, and it is not yet available in the EU or EEA. Listed on OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway.
Sakana AI Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 Tool
Orchestration models that route each task across a pool of other models, available from 11 September through an OpenAI-compatible API. Fugu Max is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; existing Fugu users upgrade with a one-line parameter change.
OpenRouter programming collection Tool
OpenRouter's curated collection of models for coding and agentic work, including the stealth/ox-alpha listing. Useful for A/B testing several coding models behind one API without separate accounts, and for checking a model's advertised context and modality contract before you build against it.
OpenRouter discounted models Tool
A live collection of models currently carrying provider discounts on OpenRouter. GPT-5.6 Sol from the OpenAI provider is listed at roughly half OpenAI's own promotional rate, against $5 and $30 for the same model via Azure.
OpenRouter Auto Exacto Tool
OpenRouter's provider-routing system that repeatedly evaluates provider telemetry and benchmark behavior, then deranks statistical outliers.
Multi-Head Latent Control Tool
Freezes a model and attaches two small heads that read its hidden states to decide whether to answer, use a tool, ask for information, abstain, or escalate to a stronger model. Open-sourced with matching small checkpoints; needs white-box access.
Free Claude Code Tool
MIT-licensed local proxy that lets Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other coding agents run against roughly 50 different providers, preserving Anthropic's wire protocol so the client never notices. Routes each internal model tier to a different upstream.