OpenRouter Code Sandboxes Surpass 18,000 Launches Since Soft Launch

Key Info

OpenRouter says developers have started over 18,000 sandboxes since the soft launch late last month of its hosted Linux code-execution environment, which lets any model write and run scripts in an isolated container.

Highlights

• More than 18,000 sandboxes have been launched since the feature's soft launch.
• The code-execution tool can be enabled in the chatroom with the shell switch, or by sending openrouter:shell on any Responses API request.
• openrouter:bash provides the same functionality for the Anthropic Messages API.