Weekly model brief
On your schedule, Zaira reads the live rankings and benchmarks and posts what's now trending, what's now best for creative, coding, or agent tasks, and at what price — to Slack or email. You stop chasing model news.
OpenRouter AI Integration
Give Zaira OpenRouter's live model intelligence — best-value model picks, weekly benchmark briefings, credit alerts, and side-by-side tests, delivered on a schedule. No API keys, no catalog reading on your part.
01Capabilities
What the OpenRouter AI integration can do
Search the live model catalog, compare pricing and endpoints, read benchmarks and rankings, run test messages, and watch your credits — then run the whole routine on a schedule within your OpenRouter account.
- Search models — filter & sort the live catalog by price, context window, modality, intelligence or coding index, and more
- Model details — full spec for one model by slug or alias, including variants
- Compare endpoints — which providers serve a model and their price, latency, throughput & data policy
- List providers — available providers for pinning routing preferences
- Send message — test a prompt on any model and compare answers side-by-side; suffixes like :online for web search or :free for free endpoints
- Generate image — create an image from a text prompt via any image model
- Inspect generation — cost, token counts and serving provider for any past call by id
- Benchmarks — artificial analysis intelligence, coding & agentic indexes plus design arena elo scores
- Model rankings — most used and trending models by daily token volume
- App rankings — top apps driving openrouter traffic, filterable by category
- Task classifications — market share by task type with the top models for each
- Check credits — remaining account credit balance
- Search docs — answers to how-do-i questions from the full openrouter documentation
- Send feedback — report a problem with one of your own generations
- Run model evals — instructions to evaluate models on your own prompts with the ori harness
- Install eval harness — recipe to install the ori eval harness
- Ping — health check to verify the connection
02Use Cases
What OpenRouter + Zaira can do for you
Zaira keeps your OpenRouter account on autopilot — weekly model briefs, credit sentinels, side-by-side prompt tests, best-value model picks, and docs answers — tracked on a schedule and delivered to Slack or email.
Credit sentinel
Zaira checks your remaining OpenRouter credits on a cadence, alerts you before the threshold you set, and reports where your balance went — no surprise top-ups.
Side-by-side prompt tests
Tell Zaira to run the same prompt on two models and it fires the message across both, showing each answer and the exact cost per call — picked and priced before you commit.
Best-value model picker
Describe the job, like "cheapest model with tool calling and a 64k context", and Zaira searches the live catalog, cross-references benchmarks and per-provider endpoints, and hands you one grounded recommendation.
Docs and features concierge
Ask "how do I pin a provider?" and Zaira searches the official OpenRouter docs and answers in plain language — plus task classification trends delivered on a weekly digest.
03How it works
Connect OpenRouter to Zaira, pick the right model on autopilot
Connect OpenRouter in one click, let Zaira search the live catalog, and get model picks and credit alerts on a schedule. No API keys, no catalog reading, and your credits stay yours.
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Connect OpenRouter to Zaira in one click
Sign in with secure OAuth to your OpenRouter account and Zaira wires up the official MCP server at mcp.openrouter.ai/mcp — no API keys to copy, no credit card required to connect.
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Describe the job in plain English
Describe the task in plain language — pick a model for a project, or find a cheaper fit for the job. Zaira pulls the live model catalog, pricing, benchmarks, and rankings from your OpenRouter account and lines up the options.
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Get the best model picks on autopilot
Model picks, side-by-side comparisons, credit-spend alerts, and docs answers land in Slack or email on the schedule you set — you review, choose, and move on.
05FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about connecting OpenRouter to Zaira.
Search and compare models, deliver benchmark and ranking briefings, run side-by-side prompt tests, watch your credits, and answer docs questions — on a schedule within your OpenRouter account.
Yes. One-click OAuth signs you into OpenRouter — no API keys, no catalog reading. Zaira wires up the official OpenRouter MCP and does the model research for you.
Only test messages and image generations can spend credits, and Zaira only runs those when you ask. Catalog, pricing, benchmark, ranking, credit, and docs lookups are read-only.
With those you ask on demand, one question at a time, and nothing runs while the chat is closed. Zaira uses the same official OpenRouter MCP, wired up for you, and adds the schedule — briefings, credit alerts, and comparisons keep running even when you're not prompting.
Yes, via secure OAuth. Access runs through OpenRouter's dedicated integration key, which carries its own spend cap and can be revoked from your OpenRouter dashboard anytime.
It combines your task with the live catalog, pricing, benchmarks, and rankings — so "cheapest model good at coding" gets a grounded pick, and you can test it side by side before committing.