This changelog covers the major features, improvements, and milestones shipped to the Router One platform. We update this page as new releases go live.
June 2026
Playground Experience Upgrade with Image Generation
The playground received a full experience upgrade. Streaming responses render more smoothly with polished markdown and code highlighting, errors come with actionable next steps, Esc stops a generation in progress, and the model selector shows per-call pricing. Image generation is now a first-class playground mode: pick an image model, write a prompt, optionally attach up to four reference images, and generate directly in the conversation flow.
Four New Landing Pages and Expanded Machine-Readable Facts
Four new bilingual landing pages went live — /smart-routing, /llm-cost-tracking, /helicone-alternative, and /use-cases/ai-coding-tools — completing the gateway content cluster. The machine-readable facts surface also expanded with /facts/routing.md and /facts/pricing.md, plus markdown mirrors for the gateway and comparison pages, so AI crawlers read exactly the same copy as the rendered pages.
CC Switch GUI Setup Guide
The docs now include a guide for CC Switch, a GUI tool that configures Claude Code and OpenAI Codex base URLs and API keys without hand-editing config files. The guide is available in English and Chinese.
May 2026
Subscription Plans Launch
Pro, Max, and Ultra subscription plans went live on May 21 for teams that want predictable monthly pricing. Wallet pay-per-token billing remains available unchanged — subscriptions run alongside it, not in place of it. Full details are in the launch announcement.
April 2026
Google and GitHub OAuth Login
You can now sign in to Router One using your Google or GitHub account. This complements the existing email-based authentication and makes onboarding faster for developers who already use these identity providers. OAuth and email sign-in reach the same Router One account and dashboard; Router One does not currently expose an organization/RBAC management layer.
Google Search Console Integration
We have integrated Google Search Console verification and sitemap management into the platform. This is part of our ongoing effort to improve the discoverability of Router One's documentation and public-facing pages. For users building on our platform, this also means better SEO tooling for any documentation or landing pages served through Router One.
Improved Dashboard Performance
The main dashboard now loads 40 percent faster thanks to server-side rendering optimizations and lazy loading of chart components. Usage graphs and cost breakdowns render incrementally, so you see critical numbers immediately without waiting for the full page to hydrate.
March 2026
Model Marketplace with Detailed Pricing
The new model marketplace gives you a clear view of every LLM available through Router One, with real-time pricing per input token and output token, capability tags, and context window sizes. Compare models side by side and make informed routing decisions without leaving the dashboard.
The marketplace currently lists models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Meta, with more providers being added on a rolling basis.
Full i18n Support: English and Chinese
The entire Router One dashboard and documentation are now available in both English and Chinese. Language selection is automatic based on browser locale and can be overridden in account settings. All UI text, error messages, help content, and API documentation are fully translated — not machine-translated, but reviewed by native speakers for accuracy and clarity.
Real-Time Usage Dashboard
The usage dashboard now updates in real time with no manual refresh required. Watch token consumption, cost accrual, and request volume as they happen. The dashboard includes:
- Per-model breakdown — see exactly how much each model is costing you
- Per-key breakdown — give each project, tool, or team a separate key and track its usage
- Per-request traces — inspect model, token, cost, latency, status, and key metadata
- Time-series charts — visualize trends over hours, days, or weeks
- Anomaly indicators — automatic highlighting when usage deviates significantly from historical patterns
Landing Page Redesign
The public-facing website received a complete redesign with improved messaging, faster load times, and a clearer explanation of Router One's value proposition: smart routing, automatic fallback, and per-request observability for LLM API traffic from mainland China.
February 2026
Provider Route Selection and Health Signals
The core routing engine is now live. A request names a model and the gateway selects an eligible provider route. Server-side adaptive strategies can use recent EWMA latency, posted cost, and reliability signals when ranking configured candidates.
The public Dashboard does not expose project-level or API-key routing weights. Candidate policy is configured on the gateway, while the request trace records the final model and provider.
Automatic Failover
When a provider returns a retryable supply, rate-limit, service, or timeout failure, Router One can try another eligible candidate. Health state and cooldowns help deprioritize degraded routes and reintroduce them after recovery.
Actual fallback time includes the failed attempt and the next provider response, so there is no universal millisecond guarantee. The Dashboard records the final route and request metrics; operations can correlate failed attempts by request ID.
WeChat and Alipay Payment Integration
Chinese users can now add funds to their Router One account using WeChat Pay and Alipay, in addition to international credit cards. Payments are processed in real time with immediate balance updates. This removes a major friction point for teams operating primarily in China.
Budget Controls and QPS Limits
Each API key can now carry its own maxSpend cap, request rateLimit, and tokenLimitTpm. Give each application, project, or tool a separate key to isolate its exposure. When maxSpend is exhausted, requests on that key stop even if the account wallet still has balance.
January 2026
Platform Launch
Router One is live. The initial release includes the foundational infrastructure that everything else is built on:
Unified LLM API Endpoint. A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint (https://api.router.one/v1) that accepts Chat Completions requests and routes them to the right model. GPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, and DeepSeek model families supported at launch, behind one request and response schema.
Claude Code and Codex Support. Router One works as a drop-in API base URL for both Anthropic's Claude Code CLI and OpenAI's Codex CLI. Configure the base URL, provide your Router One API key, and all requests flow through the platform with full tracking and budget enforcement.
API Key Isolation. Create multiple API keys under one account and assign a separate key to each application, project, tool, or environment. Each key has its own spend and rate controls; organization roles and RBAC are not part of this public release.
Observability Foundation. Every request is logged with billing and routing metadata: model used, tokens consumed (input and output), cost incurred, latency measured, status, and API key. This data powers the usage dashboard and per-request traces without retaining prompt or completion bodies.
Prepaid Credit System. Add funds to your account and consume them as you use LLM APIs. You see the wallet balance decrease with usage and can top up when needed; a key-level maxSpend cap limits an individual workload.
What Is Coming Next
We do not pre-announce features before they ship — roadmap items appear in this changelog once they are live. Subscription plans, previously listed here as upcoming, launched on 2026-05-21; see the May 2026 entry above.
Follow this changelog for updates as new releases ship.