Three new providers in kRouter: Featherless, Venice AI, and Perplexity Agent

kRouter now routes to three more providers, bringing the catalogue past 90. All three are OpenAI-compatible, so once you paste a key, the live model catalog pulls their real model list straight from their API — no waiting for a router update.

Here's what each one is and when to reach for it.

Featherless — open models, one endpoint

Featherless gives you a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of a large library of open-weight models — DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and more — without you renting GPUs or managing deployments.

• Alias: fl
• Auth: API key (Bearer)
• Good for: running a broad set of open models through one key, as a cheap backup tier in a combo, or when you want a specific open-weight model that the big labs don't host.

Example model IDs after you connect:

fl/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
fl/zai-org/GLM-5.2
fl/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code

Venice AI — private, uncensored inference

Venice AI is built around privacy: your prompts aren't retained, and it exposes uncensored open models (Venice Uncensored, GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama) through an OpenAI-compatible API.

• Alias: venice
• Auth: API key (Bearer)
• Good for: workloads where prompt privacy matters, or when a mainstream provider's guardrails get in the way of legitimate work.

Because it's OpenAI-shaped, kRouter treats it like any other key provider — paste the key, and the model list appears within a second.

Perplexity Agent — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Sonar through one Responses API

This one is different from the existing search-focused Perplexity provider. The Perplexity Agent API exposes GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, GLM, Kimi, and Sonar models through a single OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint.

• Alias: perplexity-agent
• Auth: API key (Bearer)
• Good for: reaching several frontier models through one billing relationship, with Perplexity's Sonar models available in the same catalogue.

Connecting any of them

The flow is identical for all three because kRouter knows they're OpenAI-shaped:

1. Open the dashboard, go to Providers, pick the tile.
2. Paste your API key. kRouter fetches the live model catalog and shows the count — invalid keys are caught inline before you save.
3. Hit Save. The provider is now available in combos and the Zenith routing engine.

Once connected, they participate in everything the router does: Zenith scoring, health tracking, auto-fallback, and quota display. Drop them into a combo as a cheap or private backup tier and they slot in behind your primary providers automatically.

Try it

npx @sifxprime/krouter@latest

Browse the full provider list or read the Providers guide for the connection details.