Zed AI: OpenRouter Support

[daun-io]

Hi, I'm from OpenRouter and a fan of Zed and would love to see OpenRouter integration as a new assistant provider.
OpenRouter supports dozens of the best coding models and hundreds of different models with one API key and an OpenAI-style schema.
I saw that some Zed community users have requested this feature 1 2.
Is there anything I can do to help? Thanks! 💙

[deanrie]

It would be nice to have this support.

[mintisan]

It would be nice to have this support.

[minato7namikazi]

it would be awesome : )

[tm17-abcgen]

Would love to have this too. ZedAI currently works with Anthropic only. Since OpenRouter has access to Anthropic, i hope that ZedAI can be used with OpenRouter too, to make use of the prompt caching also!

[dkphhh]

we need this！

[hrefhref]

isn't this already supported : #13276

[drivencompassion]

Awaiting OpenRouter config?

[gliptic]

OpenRouter's API is OpenAI compatible, so just e.g.:

  "language_models": {
    "openai": {
      "version": "1",
      "api_url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
      "available_models": [
        {
          "display_name": "Qwen2.5-72B",
          "name": "qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct",
          "max_tokens": 131072
        }
      ]
...

[drivencompassion]

Is there an example of configuring multiple models like openai/chatgpt-4o-latest, o1-mini & o1-preview?

[drivencompassion]

[drivencompassion]

[drivencompassion]

In addition to the LLM providers (e.g., the OpenAI API Key option), may there be an option for OpenRouter?

Run assistant (shift+command+p): show configuration

[bfulop]

I just had the same issue:

I had to add my Openrouter API key in the export OPENAI_API_KEY = env var and restart zed

[drivencompassion]

Where else is env var stored? I get an invalid settings error when trying to add "export OPENAI_API_KEY": "" to settings.json.

[bfulop]

In my case it's in .zshrc file in my home directory.

[bfulop]

If you don't have this set in you shell, then you can set it via the assistant: show configuration and replace the OpenAI key with your openrouter key. In my case because it's set via the shell I cannot edit it.

[azdanov]

Does it work for anyone else?

[phil65]

Seems as if right now we cant "mix" multiple OpenAI(-compatible) APIs because they all would have to share the same API key. Would be great if Zed would get rid of these restrictions so that someone use multiple different OpenAi-compatible APIs simultaniously. :)

[netapy]

+1, is the Zed team on this ? It would massively open up the ability to use any models at token level pricing

[TYTheBeast]

Waiting on this as well, I just discovered Zed and this missing integration is a killer, I have an OpenRouter API key but no Anthropic API key.