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Switchyard nvidia
Release timeline
Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.
- 2026-09-21 · Announced source seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC
- next · Next expected: an API endpoint, or weights on Hugging Face
Description
Switchyard is an open-source model router that switches between multiple models to optimize the cost of requests. By default it will use OpenRouter market data to select the most popular...
via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.
Facts
| Context length | 1,000,000 tokens (977K) · OpenRouter listing |
|---|---|
| Modalities | text → text |
| Openness | Closed weights · open-weights lab, name matches a closed line |
| Stage | Announced |
| Confidence | medium |
Open alternatives 5
Nearest open-weights models by modality, context and price on this watch list. Not a quality ranking.
| Model | Org | Params | Context | $/M in | License | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3 | zai-org | 753B | 1M | $0.07 | other | similar context (1.05M) |
| GLM-5.2 | zai-org | 753B | 1M | $0.03 | mit | similar context (1.05M) |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | deepseek-ai | 304B | 1M | $0.04 | mit | similar context (1.05M) |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro | deepseek-ai | 1.60T | 1M | $0.21 | mit | similar context (1.05M) |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash | deepseek-ai | 291B | 1M | $0.03 | mit | similar context (1.05M) |
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Sources
- openrouter nvidia/switchyard · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC
Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC