openrouter-docs

name	openrouter-docs
description	Use when working with the OpenRouter API: model routing, provider selection, model variants (free/nitro/thinking), tool calling, structured outputs, prompt caching, OAuth, API keys, rate limits, streaming, embeddings, Claude Code integration, or any OpenRouter-specific feature.

OpenRouter Documentation

Official OpenRouter developer docs (sourced from openrouter.ai/docs).

CRITICAL: grep references/ for keywords before answering. Do NOT guess API behavior.

Topic Index

Getting Started

• quickstart.md — API quickstart
• faq.md — FAQ
• enterprise-quickstart.md — Enterprise setup

Guides

• guides/overview/ — Principles, models, multimodal, auth
• guides/routing/ — Model fallbacks, provider selection, model variants
• guides/features/ — Tool calling, structured outputs, plugins, presets, ZDR
• guides/best-practices/ — Latency, prompt caching, uptime, reasoning tokens
• guides/privacy/ — Data collection, logging
• guides/community/ — Framework integrations (Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, etc.)

API Reference

• api/reference/ — Overview, streaming, parameters, errors, authentication
• api/reference/responses/ — Responses API
• api/api-reference/ — REST endpoints (chat, embeddings, models, keys, etc.)

SDKs

• sdks/typescript/ — TypeScript SDK
• sdks/python/ — Python SDK