# Switchyard (slim)

> Switchyard, a family of models by NVIDIA, listed from OpenRouter. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Switchyard is an open-source model router that switches between multiple models to optimize the cost of requests. By default it will use…

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/switchyard.md (~450 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/switchyard.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/switchyard
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

# Switchyard

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from OpenRouter and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: model family, by NVIDIA
- Category: Model APIs & inference (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/inference.md)
- Listed because: OpenRouter lists it, with prices from the providers that serve it.
- What OpenRouter says: 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...

## Models (1)

| Model | OpenRouter id | Released | Context | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Supports |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Switchyard | `nvidia/switchyard` | 2026-09 | 1M | not listed | not listed |  |

Prices and limits as OpenRouter lists them; a provider's own price can differ.

- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/switchyard.json
- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming