https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog What shipped on the Rapid Router AI gateway. en Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:37:10 GMT https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-uptime-probe-and-outage-hardening Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT An external probe now watches the gateway from outside our own network and raises an alert the moment inference stops answering. Gateway failures return clean JSON instead of proxy error pages, the service restarts itself until it is healthy, and the marketing site falls back to a baked catalog snapshot instead of ever reading as empty when the API blinks. reliability https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-independent-quality-rankings Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT Model pages and the rankings board now carry quality data we did not produce ourselves: LMArena human-preference ratings with their confidence intervals, and Epoch AI benchmark scores. Every number names its source, license and snapshot date, so you always know which figures we measured and which we did not. models https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-more-routes-to-the-same-models Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT Cohere and Perplexity adapters joined the gateway, along with the HuggingFace router, which brings fourteen upstream hosts behind a single key. When several providers serve the same model, the gateway routes each request to the cheapest healthy one and fails over automatically, and the model page shows every route with its price. models reliability https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-batch-api-500-requests-half-price Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT POST /v1/batches accepts up to 500 inline chat requests, runs them within a 24-hour window, and bills them at half the synchronous price. Results are kept for 30 days. platform billing https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-embeddings-endpoint Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT POST /v1/embeddings is live, priced per million tokens like everything else, with embedding models listed in their own section of the catalog. models platform https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-bring-your-own-provider-keys Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT You can now attach your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other provider keys. Requests on your keys are billed by the provider directly and carry a flat 5% platform fee here. Stored keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, verified against the provider before saving, and only ever shown back as their last four characters. platform https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-web-search-responses-api-and-response-caching Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT Three gateway features in one wave: an OpenRouter-compatible web search plugin that grounds any model with live results, the OpenAI Responses API at POST /v1/responses, and an opt-in response cache that replays identical requests at zero cost, scoped to your own account. platform https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-free-tier-and-the-auto-router Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT 42 chat models plus the first speech and image models became callable free with the :free suffix, backed by a daily sponsorship pool with a public meter. rapidrouter/auto picks a sensible model for you when you do not want to choose. models billing https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-26-rupee-checkout-and-gst-invoices Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT Recharges are typed in rupees, paid by UPI or card through Cashfree, and every payment gets a GST-compliant invoice. A GSTIN on your billing profile is validated against its own check digit before it appears on one. Per-key spend caps, account budgets, model allowlists and outbound webhooks landed in the same wave. billing platform https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-20-eleven-more-providers-one-public-catalog Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT Eleven additional upstream providers came online behind the gateway, and the full priced catalog went public: every live model with its rupee price, context window and capabilities, browsable without an account. models https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-19-real-accounts-and-live-provider-status Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT The demo login is gone. Sign-up, sessions and API keys run against the real backend, only models that are actually callable are listed anywhere, and the providers page reads its status live from the router itself. platform https://rapidrouter.ai/changelog rr-changelog-2026-08-18-rapid-router-goes-live Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT rapidrouter.ai launched: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of the major AI models, priced in rupees, pay as you go with no subscription. platform