GoKawiilWe just launched a partnership with OpenRouter that lets us offer two new pieces of functionality:
First, your projects can use any model on OpenRouter through our AI Gateway. That means that if your own web app offers AI inference-based features to your end users, you now have a much wider selection of models to fit any task and budget.
Second, we’re extending the selection of frontier coding models available for use via Agent Runners. Agent Runners is the chat prompt box you get within Netlify, which lets you build new projects from scratch or iterate on an existing one. The selection of models now includes much-hyped recent open models such as Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and DeepSeek V4, available to everyone.
We call it Agent Runners because we run a full coding agent inside, not a pared-down one. Until now, we’ve supported Claude Agent, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI which are optimized to run models from these providers.
We provide these agents with extra skills, and context about the current project, so that the agent will know exactly which Netlify capabilities are available for use (e.g., Netlify Database, the AI Gateway, or Identity), when to use them, and how. But to effectively drive a whole variety of new models, we’ve added the popular open-source OpenCode as a new choice of agent.
But with more choice come the inevitable questions: How do I know which model is right for me? Am I missing out on something that’s materially better, or more cost-effective (so I can do more with my credits), or is going to blow my mind like the internet says? There’s a lot of FOMO going around these days.
To provide you with some insights, here’s what we learned when running identical prompts across a range of models… all of which are now available for you to use today on Netlify.
You can see the results of all the models we tested on this site we created with the full report.
What we tested
Internally at Netlify, we use AXIS for automatically evaluating models, a tool that we’ve recently open-sourced.
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