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AI model routing · updated 29 October 2026

Best AI model routers and LLM gateways (OpenRouter, LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare, Not Diamond)

OpenRouter for model breadth and failover with nothing to run. LiteLLM to self-host routing logic you customise. Portkey for governance and guardrails over your own keys. Cloudflare AI Gateway for a free edge gateway if you are already on Cloudflare. Not Diamond for learned per-prompt routing on coding-agent fleets.

Top pick OpenRouter

For: one key and one bill across 300+ models with automatic provider failover and nothing to run

Don't use if: your traffic is high-volume and predictable, credit fees and BYOK charges can exceed what self-hosting costs.

Highlights

News · Original data · Research
Column chart of GPT-6.1 Sol API pricing per million tokens: 2 dollars input, 10 dollars output, cached input at 10 cents, a 95 percent discount

News · 29 Sept 2026

OpenAI pivots to GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's price and launches Dots, its always-on agent

At DevDay on 29 September 2026 OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol, priced at $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens, which it positions near Astra-level performance for coding and computer use at a fifth of the standard token price, with 95 percent cached-input discounting and a 1.05 million token context window. It also unveiled Dots, always-on agents running on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, access to more than 4,000 applications, and reach from ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams. The launch followed a one-day delay: OpenAI shelved the GPT-6.1 Astra update on 28 September after safety review found it frequently ignored instructions.

Bar chart of Instinct's valuations by round: 50 million dollars in April, 500 million in early August, 2.5 billion on 26 August, 10 billion on 28 September, with about 1.35 billion raised in total

News · 29 Sept 2026

Instinct raises $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation, one month after its Series B

Instinct confirmed a $1 billion Series C on 28 September 2026 at a $10 billion valuation, with Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Coatue investing, four weeks after a $250 million Series B at $2.5 billion and roughly six months after the operating company's April registration in California. The release named no lead investor and disclosed no revenue or pricing; reporting before the close put the invite-only personal agent past 100,000 users in mid-September.

Stacked bar of robots.txt policy across 59 tracked tool sites: 50 with no restrictions, 3 restricting at least one AI crawler, 6 unreachable on the day; 40 of 59 publish an llms.txt

Original data · 27 Sept 2026

AI crawler access, tested across every comparison we publish

One shared benchmark: we probed every tracked tool with the major AI crawler identities and recorded robots policy and live HTTP behaviour. Method, sample size, and limitations sit on each comparison's Tested page.

Diagram: Netlify's retired separate blocks of 100GB bandwidth and 300 build minutes a month replaced by one shared monthly credit pool that pauses sites at zero, beside the note that Cloudflare Pages offers unlimited bandwidth free

News · 26 Sept 2026

Netlify retires the 100GB/300-minute free plan for a credit system

Netlify's free plan is now metered by a monthly credit allowance rather than the retired 100GB bandwidth and 300 build-minute blocks, with sites pausing when credits run out.

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The Index

Every comparison, with the date it was last verified
  1. 01 AI model routing 29 October 2026
  2. 02 Self-improving AI assistants 10 October 2026
  3. 03 B2B support desks 9 October 2026
  4. 04 Notification infrastructure 9 October 2026
  5. 05 Gmail automation 3 October 2026
  6. 06 CRM platforms 30 September 2026
  7. 07 Marketing automation and lifecycle messaging 30 September 2026
  8. 08 Local LLM stacks 29 September 2026
  9. 09 AI agent builders 26 September 2026
  10. 10 AI meeting notes 26 September 2026
  11. 11 AI voice agents 26 September 2026
  12. 12 Free SPA hosting 26 September 2026
  13. 13 Workflow automation 26 September 2026
  14. 14 Agentic code review 24 September 2026
  15. 15 AI coding assistants 24 September 2026
  16. 16 Personal AI agents 24 September 2026

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GTM & revenue

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