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OpenRouter Integration

How to connect your OpenRouter account to access hundreds of models.

Product stage
Pre-release development
Last reviewed
2026-07-23
Successful result
The change is visible in the active project.

What this accomplishes

Configure OpenRouter to access a wide variety of open-source and proprietary models through a single key.

Current availability

This page documents behaviour verified in Miton development builds. Miton is still pre-release and is not publicly downloadable; invited beta users will receive a signed desktop build with automatic updates.

Before you start

  • A Miton development build and an active project.
  • A connected cloud or local model, plus any credentials or local runtime required by this task.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Settings and select the “Providers” section.
  2. Click on the “OpenRouter” item.
  3. Paste your OpenRouter API key and click “Save”.
  4. Return to the chat view and click the model selector in the roster bar.
  5. Search for the OpenRouter model you wish to use.

What success looks like

OpenRouter models will become available in the model selector, and your requests will route through OpenRouter.

Common failures and recovery

  • No models found: Check that your OpenRouter key has sufficient credit balance.
  • Model routing failures: Ensure you are using the correct model ID format (e.g. openrouter/meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct).

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