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title: "Changelog"
description: "What changed and why it matters, newest first. Also an Atom feed at /changelog.xml."
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last_updated: "2026-09-29"
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# Changelog

Recent changes

Atom feed: https://minirouter.sh/changelog.xml
HTML: https://minirouter.sh/changelog

## September 2026

- 2026-09-29 · Models · **Meet GPT-6.1 Sol and Fast.** GPT-6.1 Sol and Fast have joined the text model catalog. Compare current rates and review Responses setup and reasoning settings. [Meet GPT-6.1 Sol](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/gpt-6-1-sol-and-fast)
- 2026-09-28 · Models · **Meet Claude Sonnet 5.5.** Sonnet 5.5 joins the catalog with 1M context and stronger coding scores at Sonnet 5's token price. Compare Anthropic's results and get the API setup. [Explore Sonnet 5.5](https://minirouter.sh/models/anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5)
- 2026-09-27 · Routing · **Choose your balance with Fusion.** Fusion Cheap, Fusion and Fusion Max give you three price–quality priorities. Each routes by task and complexity using benchmark quality, estimated cost and latency. [Explore the three profiles](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/fusion-frontier)
- 2026-09-26 · Billing · **Agents can open an account and pay their own way.** POST /accounts/agent returns a key and a Solana deposit address, no browser needed. Fund it with USDC or any Solana token, which converts to credit on the way in. [See how agents pay](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/agents-pay-their-own-way)
- 2026-09-24 · Models · **Qwen 3.8 Max Prime and Ember 1 are live.** Alibaba's high-speed Qwen 3.8 Max lane and Fireworks' Ember 1, a Kimi K3 tune that reports 40% fewer tokens at the same quality, are in the catalog. Both take 1M context and image input. [Meet both models](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/qwen3-8-max-prime-now-available)
- 2026-09-23 · Account · **Teams.** Share one prepaid balance with up to 10 people, each with their own keys and logs. The owner funds it, sets routing and invites by link. [See how it works](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/teams)
- 2026-09-23 · Billing · **Pay with MINI at 105%.** MINI you pay credits at 105% of its value while the monthly allowance lasts, then 100%. The price is the lower of spot and a 30-minute average. [Pay with MINI](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/billing/topup/mini)
- 2026-09-23 · API · **Bring your own provider keys.** Connect OpenAI, Anthropic or DeepSeek with a 0% MiniRouter service fee for one enabled key per provider, or 3% of published-rate usage with multiple enabled keys for the same provider. Your provider bills inference separately. [Explore provider keys](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/bring-your-own-provider-keys)
- 2026-09-23 · API · **Your model can search the web.** Add minirouter:web_search to tools on Chat Completions and the answer comes back grounded in current results. Each search costs $0.01. [Meet the server tools](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/web-search-and-web-fetch)
- 2026-09-22 · Billing · **Export your transactions from one place.** Billing, Usage and Activity share one Export button: deposits and settled charges for any period, as a CSV a spreadsheet can sum. Refunds, free credits and holds are left out. [Export transactions](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/billing)
- 2026-09-22 · Models · **GPT-6 Sol and Luna are live.** OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol, Luna and their Fast versions are in the catalog with 1.05M context and vision input. Both cost half their GPT-5.6 predecessors, and Sol beats Claude Opus 5 on AutomationBench. [Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/gpt-6-sol-and-luna-now-available)
- 2026-09-22 · Models · **Claude Opus 5.5 is live.** Anthropic's Opus 5.5 and Opus 5.5 Fast are in the catalog with 1M context and vision input. It scores 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 20% less per token than Opus 5. [Meet Opus 5.5](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/claude-opus-5-5-now-available)
- 2026-09-22 · Models · **MiMo V2.6 is live.** Xiaomi's V2.6 Pro, Flash and Pro UltraSpeed are in the catalog with 1M context and vision input. Pro scores 71.9% on DeepSWE, near Claude Opus 5. [Meet MiMo V2.6](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/mimo-v2-6-now-available)
- 2026-09-21 · Models · **Explore Grok 4.7.** Review SpaceXAI's new coding model, sourced benchmarks and temporary provider pricing. The release guide tracks MiniRouter catalog availability. [Meet Grok 4.7](https://minirouter.sh/releases/grok-4-7)
- 2026-09-21 · Models · **Meet Step 5 Preview.** StepFun's flagship preview gets a release guide covering its 1M-token context, vision and published evaluations. Check the guide for MiniRouter catalog availability. [Explore Step 5 Preview](https://minirouter.sh/releases/step-5-preview)
- 2026-09-20 · Routing · **Build your own router visually.** Choose task type, complexity, both, or a custom question, then drag models into routes while comparing intelligence, speed and price. Jev's highest score wins, your answer order breaks ties, and you can test and preview the configuration before saving. [Build a router](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/build-your-own-router)
- 2026-09-19 · API · **Get structured evaluations with Jev.** Use /v1/evaluate or the native TypeSafe /typesafe/v1/systemone endpoint for typed decisions. Availability follows the qualified catalog, with finalized provider inference cost plus 10% pricing. [Meet Jev](https://minirouter.sh/changelog/jev-now-available-on-minirouter)
- 2026-09-19 · Billing · **Auto and Fusion have their own routing rates.** Auto now charges provider cost plus 8%, and Fusion plus 10%, including classification. Published router rates include these total markups. If Fusion cannot classify a request, it uses Auto at 8%; Auto Free and chat trials remain free. [See request pricing](https://minirouter.sh/docs/billing)
- 2026-09-19 · Models · **Explore Bonsai 2 27B.** A new release guide explains PrismML's ternary model, Darkbloom pricing, and text API support. MiniRouter API access is not live yet. [Read about Bonsai 2](https://minirouter.sh/releases/bonsai-2-27b)
- 2026-09-18 · Chat · **Chat is free to try, no key needed.** Twenty messages per account on Qwen 3.7 Flash, with Ling 3.0 Flash standing in when it is busy. Past conversations sit in a sidebar. [Open chat](https://minirouter.sh/chat)
- 2026-09-18 · Billing · **Holds shrink and clear the moment a stream ends.** A streamed answer settles from the provider's reported cost as it finishes, instead of waiting up to forty seconds for a lookup. Continuing a thread holds its cached prefix at the cache-read rate. [Read about holds](https://minirouter.sh/docs/billing)
- 2026-09-18 · Codex · **Codex compaction turns go through.** When Codex summarises a long session it sends an empty tool list, which was refused as invalid. It is accepted now, and a refused request names the field. [Codex setup](https://minirouter.sh/docs/integrations/codex)
- 2026-09-18 · Site · **Analytics shows the tokens and requests MiniRouter serves.** See tokens and successful requests over 30, 90 or 180 days, with daily or weekly totals and the most-used published models. Totals update once a day and exclude internal and test traffic. [Open analytics](https://minirouter.sh/analytics)
- 2026-09-18 · Models · **Compare models side by side.** Click up to six rows on the models page to see input price, output price, context window and intelligence side by side. The link carries the selection. [Browse models](https://minirouter.sh/models)
- 2026-09-17 · Chat · **Chat shows a router choosing your model.** Pick Fusion or Auto in Chat and watch it choose: the candidates spin, land on the model that answers, and Fusion adds the task, tier and effort it read from your message. [Open Chat](https://minirouter.sh/chat)
- 2026-09-17 · API · **Fusion reads your request and picks the model.** Send minirouter/fusion and a classifier labels the request's task and complexity, then routes it to the cheapest model and reasoning effort that fits: a quick question goes to a fast, cheap model, a hard problem to a frontier one. The x-minirouter-route-reason header shows the label, and your own reasoning setting always wins. [How Fusion picks](https://minirouter.sh/docs/fusion)
- 2026-09-17 · API · **Claude models cache long prompts automatically.** Fable 5.1, Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 now cache repeated tools and history for five minutes on Responses and Chat Completions, so each agent turn pays the cached rate for what it already sent. On Responses, cache_ttl: "1h" keeps it longer; caching: "disabled" opts out on either.
- 2026-09-17 · Integrations · **Codex lists your presets and the newest models.** Codex now loads MiniRouter's model list, presets first and then the newest tool-capable models, and switching model mid-session keeps working. Long sessions on OpenAI models hold counted tokens instead of request bytes, so a funded account no longer meets a 402. [Set up Codex](https://minirouter.sh/docs/integrations/codex)
- 2026-09-17 · Integrations · **The current Claude Code release works with Messages again.** Messages accepts the context_management field and the system-role turns recent Claude Code versions send, which it used to refuse. Nothing changes in your settings. [Set up Claude Code](https://minirouter.sh/docs/integrations/claude-code)
- 2026-09-15 · Dashboard · **A guardrail on a key caps its spend and redacts sensitive text before any model sees it.** Create one on Guardrails with a daily, weekly or monthly budget, model and provider lists, built-in detectors for emails, phone numbers, card numbers, secrets and prompt injection, and your own patterns, then assign it to a key. A blocked request answers 403 guardrail_blocked; a redacted one carries x-minirouter-guardrail: redacted. [Read the guardrails docs](https://minirouter.sh/docs/guardrails)
- 2026-09-15 · API · **Spend caps and disallowed models now answer with a 403.** A reached daily or monthly spend cap returns 403 spend_limit_exceeded naming when it resets, and a model this key's policy excludes returns 403 model_not_allowed. Rate limits stay 429 with Retry-After, so retry logic keyed on 429 no longer loops on a cap. [Read the error reference](https://minirouter.sh/docs/errors#spend_limit_exceeded)
- 2026-09-15 · API · **MiniRouter can fetch pages and tell the time for your model.** Add minirouter:web_fetch or minirouter:datetime to tools on Chat Completions. MiniRouter runs each call and returns the final answer, with usage and cost totalled. Two plugins join it: one fits a long prompt to the model, one repairs malformed JSON output. [Read the request parameters docs](https://minirouter.sh/docs/parameters)
- 2026-09-15 · API · **Structured output works on 153 models through Chat Completions.** Send response_format with a JSON Schema and MiniRouter routes only to providers verified to enforce it. Elsewhere the format is dropped and flagged by x-minirouter-structured-output: ignored, or refused with provider.require_parameters: true. [Read the structured output guide](https://minirouter.sh/docs/structured-output)
- 2026-09-14 · API · **Save a reusable request setup as a preset.** Save models, instructions, tools and routing settings under a versioned slug in Dashboard → Presets, then send @preset/your-slug as the model to Chat Completions, Responses or Messages. Fields you send override saved ones, and account and key limits still apply. [Read the presets docs](https://minirouter.sh/docs/presets)
- 2026-09-11 · Startups · **Startups and developers can apply for API credit.** Up to $10,000 across three tiers, one form, and a reply within two business days. Approved teams redeem a single code in Billing. [Apply for credits](https://minirouter.sh/startups)
- 2026-09-11 · Models · **Auto can be held under a price ceiling per account.** Set a Low, Medium or High cost tier on Routing and minirouter/auto only picks candidates under that output price. Low also starts bare auto from the cheap list. [See how the tier applies](https://minirouter.sh/models/auto)
- 2026-09-11 · Dashboard · **Routing now holds a default model, provider sort and override lock.** Set the model a request gets when it names none, the provider sort it inherits when it sends none, and whether requests may override provider routing at all. Every key on the account follows them. [Set routing defaults](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/routing)
- 2026-09-11 · Dashboard · **Routing sets the models every key on your account may use.** A new Routing page holds the account-wide allowed-model list, and a family such as openai/* covers models that author publishes later. Keys keep their own lists and can only narrow the account's. [Open Routing](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/routing)
- 2026-09-10 · Models · **Explore the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash release.** Compare DeepSeek's latest Flash generation using published coding benchmarks, pricing, and migration notes. The release guide shows its current MiniRouter availability. [Explore DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://minirouter.sh/releases/deepseek-v4-1-flash)
- 2026-09-09 · Dashboard · **Balance and model alerts have a new home.** Set your own low-balance threshold and choose model retirement, price or weekly new-model updates in Alerts. Email delivery is not active yet. [Configure alerts](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/alerts)
- 2026-09-09 · Models · **More Qwen, Claude, GPT and Grok models to choose from.** The catalog adds Qwen 3.8 models, Claude Opus 5 Fast, Mercury 2.5 and more GPT and Grok variants. These additions support text requests. [Browse models](https://minirouter.sh/models)
- 2026-09-09 · Chat · **Choose how much room to give a chat response.** Paid chat defaults to 4,096 output tokens, with a selectable limit up to 16,384, subject to the model's limit. Replies now indicate when they reach the cap. [Open chat](https://minirouter.sh/chat)
- 2026-09-09 · Integrations · **OpenCode can use more complex tools.** Nested tool schemas, including OpenCode's question and option fields, no longer fail an overly restrictive depth check. Unsupported streaming-tool combinations also return clearer errors before a request is sent. [Set up OpenCode](https://minirouter.sh/docs/integrations/opencode)
- 2026-09-09 · API · **Messages accepts both structured-output formats.** Use either Anthropic's current or legacy JSON-schema request format with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-4.1 mini on supported routes. Both streaming and non-streaming responses are supported. [Read the API docs](https://minirouter.sh/docs)
- 2026-09-08 · Rankings · **See which models people use on MiniRouter.** Daily rankings show eligible token usage, request counts and model-author shares. Compare trends across models using aggregated usage that meets the publication thresholds. [Explore usage rankings](https://minirouter.sh/rankings/usage)
- 2026-09-08 · Models · **Auto Free adds no-deposit API access.** Auto Free supports no-deposit playground and API requests with a permanent $0 customer charge and shared account limits. Availability and daily limits apply; Auto Free never switches to a paid model. [Check free availability](https://minirouter.sh/models/auto/free)
- 2026-09-08 · Models · **DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Beta joins the catalog.** DeepSeek's temporary Flash beta supported text requests through MiniRouter and expired on September 10, 2026 at 00:00 UTC. See the permanent V4.1 Flash release for current availability. [Read the permanent release](https://minirouter.sh/releases/deepseek-v4-1-flash)
- 2026-09-08 · Pricing · **Base prices are shown with clear peak-hour disclosures.** Models with peak pricing now show off-peak rates by default, with the provider's 2× surcharge and schedule called out on model pages, model lists, and the calculator. Published rates include MiniRouter's markup; final charges reflect any applicable peak-hour surcharge. [Compare model prices](https://minirouter.sh/pricing)
- 2026-09-08 · Models · **Darkbloom-only models now appear in the public catalog.** Three Qwen models already available through the API now appear on the website with their Darkbloom routes and prices. The public catalog recognises models served only by Darkbloom. [Browse models](https://minirouter.sh/models)
- 2026-09-08 · Account · **Your last-used sign-in method is easier to find.** Google, GitHub, and passkey options now show a visible Last used badge, making it easier to recognise how you signed in before. [Sign in](https://minirouter.sh/login)
- 2026-09-07 · Account · **Sign in with Google, GitHub, or a passkey.** Create an account with Google or GitHub, or link them to your existing account. Manage connected sign-in methods and add, rename, or remove passkeys in Settings. [Manage sign-in methods](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/settings)
- 2026-09-07 · Reliability · **Service updates are less likely to be interrupted.** Overlapping releases no longer interrupt an update already in progress. Service can still be unavailable for several minutes during an update. [View live status](https://minirouter.sh/status)
- 2026-09-06 · Models · **Darkbloom is live on /v1: open weights, one field away.** One request field routes chat completions or Responses to Darkbloom's quantized open-weight models on Apple Silicon, with token rates up to 60% lower than the default route and a 105 µUSD floor per request. Four more models joined, including three only Darkbloom serves. [Read the Darkbloom guide](https://minirouter.sh/guides/darkbloom)
- 2026-09-06 · Dashboard · **The chat playground is a full page with a searchable model picker.** Try any catalog model from the dashboard without leaving it, on mobile too. Loading stages are shown as the request moves, and a low balance prompts a top-up in place. [Open the playground](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/chat)
- 2026-09-06 · Payments · **Solana deposits are matched by signature, on chain.** A deposit lookup now reads the transaction directly instead of waiting for the address scan, and a failed lookup says why. [View Solana payments](https://minirouter.sh/pay/solana)
- 2026-09-05 · Models · **minirouter/auto picks the model for you.** Send model "minirouter/auto" (or :cheap, :smart, :code, :roleplay) and the edge resolves one concrete catalog model before pricing, from a public table you can read. The response names the pick. [See the resolution table](https://minirouter.sh/models/auto)
- 2026-09-05 · Billing · **Billing problems no longer pause everyone's requests.** Two short outages on 5 September came from the upstream reconciliation refusing admission. Over-bound provider costs are now absorbed under a budget, upstream failures before the first byte are written off, and reconciliation trouble alerts instead of refusing. [Read billing behavior](https://minirouter.sh/docs/billing)
- 2026-09-05 · Dashboard · **Activity and Usage gained a yearly heatmap and paging.** A spend heatmap shows the year at a glance on both pages, and long lists page at a size you choose. [Open Usage](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/usage)
- 2026-09-05 · Support · **A help menu and direct feedback from the app.** The desktop header has a help menu, and feedback typed into the app reaches the team's Slack immediately.
- 2026-09-04 · Models · **GPT-6 Astra joins the catalog.** OpenAI's new flagship is listed with a 1.05M-token context window. Its model page brings together current MiniRouter prices, published benchmarks, independent measurements, and Responses API setup. [Explore GPT-6 Astra](https://minirouter.sh/models/openai/gpt-6-astra)
- 2026-09-04 · Payments · **Pay with MINI, from the normal top-up page.** The MINI token is a first-class way to add credits: pick it on top-up and the swap and credit happen in one step, with the same zero deposit fee as other crypto. [See payment options](https://minirouter.sh/pay)
- 2026-09-04 · Dashboard · **Charts, usage tables and API keys were polished.** Usage charts read at a glance, tables share one register, and key actions fit on small screens. [Manage keys](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard/keys)

## August 2026

- 2026-08-31 · Pricing · **Pricing became faster to compare.** A searchable live-catalog calculator now leads the page, with current offers and the 0% crypto-deposit fee kept in view. [Estimate a workload](https://minirouter.sh/pricing)
- 2026-08-30 · Reliability · **Provider access is now checked end to end.** Representative requests verify that each provider can return generated output. Recovery was hardened for stale capacity data, while the paid canary cadence moved to every two hours. [View live status](https://minirouter.sh/status)
- 2026-08-30 · Billing · **Billing lag no longer pauses recoverable requests.** Admission now honours billing grace and bounded reconciliation while keeping the spend controls around every request. Cost convergence, overages and tiny residual balances received the same recovery treatment. [Read billing behavior](https://minirouter.sh/docs/billing)
- 2026-08-30 · Pricing · **Zero-fee crypto deposits are explicit.** The public comparison now shows MiniRouter's 0% crypto-deposit fee beside OpenRouter's published 5%, while keeping network costs and token-swap pricing separate. [See pricing](https://minirouter.sh/pricing)
- 2026-08-27 · Platform · **Release bundles now refresh the reverse proxy.** A release recreates Caddy when its mounted configuration changes, preventing the gateway from serving an older route map. The production image also refreshes its Alpine security packages.
- 2026-08-26 · Access · **Keep creating and funding keys during service updates.** Available payment methods remain usable during service updates, so you can continue creating and funding a key. [Create a key](https://minirouter.sh/key)
- 2026-08-26 · Catalog · **Model IDs are tappable on every screen.** The identifier itself is now the copy control, including on touch devices. Confirmation is written and announced instead of depending on an icon that only appears on hover. [Browse models](https://minirouter.sh/models)
- 2026-08-26 · Interface · **Tables now share one visual register.** Six header treatments and eight container styles became one accessible table system. Redundant rules were removed across the public site and dashboard so data carries the hierarchy.
- 2026-08-25 · Payments · **The minimum supported deposit moved to $0.50.** Deposit capabilities, payment copy and validation now agree on the lower floor. The API host root also points clients to the LLM API instead of leaving discovery at a dead end. [Review deposit rules](https://minirouter.sh/docs/billing)
- 2026-08-22 · Discovery · **More clients can discover MiniRouter.** Client metadata and integration guidance expanded for models.dev, Continue and LiteLLM-style consumers, with reasoning options carried through the catalog contract. [Choose a client](https://minirouter.sh/integrations)
- 2026-08-22 · Rankings · **Coding-model rankings became a first-class reference.** The new ranked boards separate source-led benchmark references from routable catalog data, with the underlying board data also available as JSON and CSV. [Open rankings](https://minirouter.sh/rankings)
- 2026-08-15 · API · **Anthropic Messages gained tools, thinking and images.** The Messages surface now accepts structured content blocks, tool loops, images, thinking and cache controls. Authenticated token counting and Anthropic SDK parity tests cover the same protocol. [Read the API docs](https://minirouter.sh/docs)
- 2026-08-14 · Models · **Models gained release dossiers and real brand marks.** The catalog sorts by publisher release date, uses local brand artwork and links to source-reviewed release dossiers that keep launch claims separate from MiniRouter availability. [Explore releases](https://minirouter.sh/releases)
- 2026-08-14 · Operations · **Missing catalog updates are detected automatically.** Hourly checks flag persistent differences between our model list and the provider catalog so we can investigate missing updates.
- 2026-08-14 · Payments · **Solana monitoring stopped scaling with every old address.** Frequent scans now follow recently active deposit addresses while a full six-hour reconciliation preserves dormant coverage. Retry caps keep one bad observation from amplifying RPC load. [View Solana payments](https://minirouter.sh/pay/solana)
- 2026-08-05 · Experience · **Quick Start shipped, and mobile overflow was removed.** The dashboard gained a direct first-request path. A viewport audit then fixed page-level horizontal scrolling across 27 routes at 390, 360 and 320 pixels. [Open dashboard](https://minirouter.sh/dashboard)
- 2026-08-02 · Guides · **Personal-agent and roleplay guides launched.** Ten workload and integration pages now cover spend limits, cost-per-message assumptions and setup for OpenHands, RisuAI, Agnai and other clients. [Browse guides](https://minirouter.sh/guides)

## July 2026

- 2026-07-30 · Product · **The full public and dashboard surface came online.** Models, providers, comparison, pricing, payments, legal, documentation, status and integration routes joined the accountless key and nine-page dashboard flows. [Start with the docs](https://minirouter.sh/docs)
- 2026-07-30 · Foundation · **The complete request and money path passed end to end.** A cold local stack proved accountless key creation, idempotent credit, streaming inference, reserve and settlement accounting, compatibility endpoints and the zero-balance error path.
- 2026-07-30 · Backend · **Gateway, ledger, pricing and payment rails were joined.** The edge relay, exact-decimal pricing, double-entry credit ledger, provider health, deposit rails and dashboard API were wired into one tested system rather than remaining isolated packages.