Warp, the agentic terminal trusted by over 800,000 developers, just made its built-in AI agent dramatically more flexible. You can now point Warp's agent at your own OpenRouter URL, unlocking a catalog of hundreds of models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Kimi, and more, all without leaving the terminal. The change is live now and available on every plan, including Free.

The problem it solves

Until now, Warp's agent ran on Warp's own bundled inference, meaning you were limited to the models Warp chose to support. That was fine for most users, but it left a real gap: developers who already had OpenRouter credits, wanted to experiment with a newly released model, or needed to route through a specific provider for cost or compliance reasons had no path forward inside Warp.

The model layer needed to be more flexible. Developers should be able to use Warp Agent with the inference setup that works best for them, including providers or models Warp does not support natively yet, specific model configurations, custom routing behavior, and existing credits with model providers.

What OpenRouter actually is

If you haven't used it before: OpenRouter is a unified API gateway that provides access to 315+ AI models from every major provider through a single, OpenAI-compatible API. Instead of managing separate API keys and billing for each provider, you use one API key and one credit balance. Think of it as a universal adapter for LLM inference.