# SHAI — OpenRouter

> The tenant's own OpenRouter key - one key that reaches hundreds of models, including open-weight ones no vendor sells directly. This is the only provider SHAI reaches through a first-party AI SDK provider package rather than an OpenAI-compatible base URL.

Canonical page: /integrations/openrouter

## How SHAI connects to it
SHAI talks to it directly, with the key you paste. It is one of the tools SHAI has written up — what it costs, why it matters, what breaks without it — as `openrouter-api-key` in the tool guide.

## What it needs
a key you paste, in Setup or on /connections.

## Where that was read
docs/tools/tools.json (openrouter-api-key), verified 2026-09-16.

Connect it: /connections?tool=openrouter