New models, as they appear
We check the catalogue every hour and write down what is new. 145 models so far; 14 of them we have since tested ourselves.
Most recent: inception/mercury-2.5 — first seen Wednesday, 9 September 2026 at 06:01
“First seen” means first listed on OpenRouter, the router we run every test through — not the date a lab announced it. A model can be announced days before a router carries it, or appear on a router with no announcement at all. We are telling you when it became usable, because that is the thing we actually watched.
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
inception/mercury-2.5Inception06:01
nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:freeNex AGIfree route06:01
nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:freeNex AGIfree route06:01
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp:batchDeepSeek16:14
z-ai/glm-5.3:batchZ.ai16:14
Saturday, 5 September 2026
openai/gpt-6-astra-pro:batchOpenAI14:14
openai/gpt-6-astra:batchOpenAI14:14
qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902Alibaba (Qwen)14:14
Friday, 4 September 2026
openai/gpt-6-astraOpenAI21:14
openai/gpt-6-astra-proOpenAI21:14
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:freeInclusionAIfree route19:14
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safetyNVIDIA05:56
x-ai/grok-4.3:batchxAI05:56
Thursday, 3 September 2026
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-finInclusionAI17:14
meta/muse-spark-1.3Meta08:14
meta/muse-spark-1.3-contributorMeta08:14
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
google/gemini-3.8-flashGoogle16:14
google/gemini-3.8-flash:batchGoogle16:14
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1:batchAnthropic06:14
~z-ai/glm-flash-latestZ.aialias, not a new model02:14
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1Anthropic19:14
inception/mercury-2.5-previewInception15:14
Monday, 31 August 2026
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8bIBM21:14
openai/gpt-5-pro:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/gpt-5.6-sol-pro:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/gpt-5.6-terra-pro:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/o3-mini:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/o3:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/o4-mini:batchOpenAI20:14
Friday, 28 August 2026
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:batchDeepSeek20:14
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813:batchDeepSeek20:14
google/gemma-4-31b-it:batchGoogle20:14
meta/muse-glimmer-30b:batchMeta20:14
openai/gpt-oss-120b:batchOpenAI20:14
openai/gpt-oss-20b:batchOpenAI20:14
qwen/qwen3.5-9b:batchAlibaba (Qwen)20:14
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batchThinking Machines20:14
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash:batchZ.ai20:14
qwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b:batchAlibaba (Qwen)16:14
mistralai/codestral-2508:batchMistral08:14
mistralai/ministral-8b-2512:batchMistral08:14
mistralai/mistral-large-2512:batchMistral08:14
mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1:batchMistral08:14
mistralai/mistral-small-2603:batchMistral08:14
tencent/hy4-previewTencent07:14
Thursday, 27 August 2026
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:freeInclusionAIfree route17:14
qwen/qwen3.8-flashAlibaba (Qwen)08:14
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
z-ai/glm-5.3-flashZ.ai15:14
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
minimax/minimax-m2.7:freeMiniMaxfree route05:14
minimax/minimax-m3:freeMiniMaxfree route05:14
Monday, 24 August 2026
mistralai/devstral-2512Mistral16:14
Sunday, 23 August 2026
tencent/hy-mt2-7bTencent12:04
Friday, 21 August 2026
meta/muse-spark-1.2-contributorMeta22:14
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:freeThinking Machinesfree route20:14
thinkingmachines/inkling:freeThinking Machinesfree route20:14
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-expDeepSeek12:14
mancer/weavermancer07:17
stealth/ox-alphastealth07:17
Thursday, 20 August 2026
mistralai/ministral-8bMistral17:14
tencent/hy-mt2-1.8bTencent14:14
tencent/hy-mt2-30b-a3bTencent14:14
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
~z-ai/glm-latestZ.aialias, not a new model15:14
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
z-ai/glm-5.3Z.ai21:14
Sunday, 16 August 2026
Saturday, 15 August 2026
dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:freeDotsfree route05:42
openai/gpt-oss-20b:freeOpenAIfree route02:15
qwen/qwen3.8-27bAlibaba (Qwen)02:15
Friday, 14 August 2026
google/gemini-3.7-flashGoogle06:59
google/gemini-3.7-flash:batchGoogle06:59
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
qwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bAlibaba (Qwen)17:14
bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turboByteDance16:14
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813DeepSeek16:14
x-ai/grok-4.6xAI16:14
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:freeLiquid AIfree route21:14
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-codeByteDance17:14
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightningNVIDIA17:14
meta/muse-glimmer-30bMeta16:14
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:freeNVIDIAfree route16:14
sakana/sakana-namazuSakana16:14
upstage/solar-pro4Upstage16:14
Thursday, 6 August 2026
inclusionai/ling-3.0-tiny:freeInclusionAIfree route18:14
meta/muse-spark-1.2Meta07:04
Monday, 3 August 2026
qwen/qwen3.8-maxAlibaba (Qwen)16:14
Saturday, 1 August 2026
~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latestDeepSeekalias, not a new model18:14
Friday, 31 July 2026
thinkingmachines/inkling-smallThinking Machines15:20
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731DeepSeek09:15
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
minimax/minimax-m3:batchMiniMax07:58
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batchGoogle17:14
google/gemini-2.5-flash:batchGoogle17:14
google/gemini-2.5-pro:batchGoogle17:14
google/gemini-3-flash-preview:batchGoogle17:14
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite:batchGoogle17:14We test this one — see Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite’s scores →
google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview:batchGoogle17:14
google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:batchGoogle17:14
google/gemini-3.6-flash:batchGoogle17:14
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5:batchAnthropic16:14
anthropic/claude-opus-4.1:batchAnthropic16:14
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5:batchAnthropic16:14
anthropic/claude-opus-4.7:batchAnthropic16:14
anthropic/claude-opus-5:batchAnthropic16:14
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5:batchAnthropic16:14
qwen/qwen3.7-flashAlibaba (Qwen)00:14
Friday, 24 July 2026
anthropic/claude-opus-5Anthropic17:14
anthropic/claude-opus-5-fastAnthropic17:14
Thursday, 23 July 2026
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash:freeInclusionAIfree route19:14
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flashInclusionAI18:14
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
openai/gpt-3.5-turbo:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-4-turbo:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-4.1-mini:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-4.1-nano:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-4.1:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-4o-mini:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-4o:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5-mini:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.1:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.2-pro:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.2:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.4-mini:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.4-nano:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.4-pro:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.4:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5.5-pro:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5:batchOpenAI22:14
openai/gpt-5-nano:batchOpenAI21:15
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
poolside/laguna-s-2.1Poolside17:14
poolside/laguna-s-2.1:freePoolsidefree route17:14
google/gemini-3.5-flash-liteGoogle16:14
google/gemini-3.6-flashGoogle16:14
Monday, 20 July 2026
kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2.5:freeKwaifree route21:14
meituan/longcat-2.0Meituan14:15
Friday, 17 July 2026
thinkingmachines/inklingThinking Machines23:14
openrouter/auto-betaOpenRouter19:14
Repeat sightings are collapsed to the first one: a model can be listed, withdrawn and listed again, and the honest date is the first time it appeared. Entries marked “alias” are pointers a router keeps to whichever version is current (“always give me the latest”), not new models. Nothing here is written by hand — the scan runs at fourteen minutes past every hour and this page is rebuilt from what it found.
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