openrouter-benchmarks

name

openrouter-benchmarks

description

Query OpenRouter's Benchmarks API for model benchmark rankings and scores. Use when the user asks for benchmark-backed model selection, model rankings by coding/intelligence/agentic ability, Artificial Analysis or Design Arena ELO/win-rate results, benchmark citations, or wants to call GET /api/v1/benchmarks. Also use alongside openrouter-models when the user asks what model should power an app, product, workflow, or use case and benchmark evidence could inform or rule out part of the recommendation, including creative writing, editing, coding, design, agentic, or intelligence-heavy apps. Do not use for OpenRouter usage analytics, billing/spend analysis, generation metadata, provider uptime/latency, generic model pricing/capability lookup without any selection or benchmark-relevance decision, or creating an evaluation suite for a local app.

OpenRouter Benchmarks

Use OpenRouter's unified benchmarks endpoint to answer benchmark-backed model ranking and model-selection questions. The endpoint aggregates Artificial Analysis and Design Arena data and returns citation metadata that should be preserved when reporting results.

Prerequisites

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY to any valid OpenRouter API key. Benchmarks do not require a management key.

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-...

Decision Tree

User wants to...	Action
See benchmark-ranked models across sources	Call GET /api/v1/benchmarks and preserve source/citation metadata
Choose a model for an app/use case	Check whether Artificial Analysis or Design Arena contains a relevant signal; say when no direct benchmark exists
Find best coding, intelligence, or agentic models	Use task_type=coding, , or