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OpenRouter introduced a one-click toggle that restricts API requests to model providers with official zero data retention policies. By moving privacy enforcement to the workspace level, developers can ensure sensitive data is never stored or used for training without managing individual provider settings.
OpenRouter, a unified API for accessing hundreds of LLMs (large language models), launched a one-click Zero Data Retention (ZDR) toggle within its OpenRouter Workspaces organizational layer. This guardrail filters models to only route traffic to providers that do not store user prompts or completions.
- Availability
- All OpenRouter users
- Configuration level
- Workspace-wide
- Data handling
- No storage of prompts or completions
- Model filtering
- Restricts to ZDR-compliant providers
- Budgeting
- Individual API key budgets still apply
This update addresses a primary friction point for enterprise AI adoption: the risk of proprietary data being retained for training. While frontier labs offer ZDR, managing policies across fragmented providers is a compliance burden. OpenRouter's approach mirrors Vercel's team-wide ZDR enforcement, centralizing privacy controls at the gateway.
You can enable the ZDR guardrail through workspace settings to instantly restrict all API keys in that environment to compliant providers. This ensures that any model used—whether for internal tools or agents—adheres to strict privacy standards. The feature is available now for all users via the OpenRouter dashboard.
Still wondering? A few quick answers below.
Zero Data Retention is a privacy feature that ensures AI model providers do not store your prompts or the resulting completions. When enabled on OpenRouter, it guarantees that your data is not used for model training or persistent logging by the underlying provider, which is critical for handling sensitive or regulated information.
You can enable Zero Data Retention through the Guardrails section of an OpenRouter Workspace. By toggling the ZDR setting with one click, you apply a global privacy policy to that specific environment. This automatically restricts all API requests within that workspace to only use model providers that officially support zero data retention policies.
When the Zero Data Retention guardrail is active, OpenRouter automatically filters its catalog to show only ZDR-compliant providers. While the platform supports over 500 models, this feature ensures your traffic is only routed to partners that officially support non-retention terms, preventing your data from being stored or used for training by the underlying model provider.
The Zero Data Retention setting is enforced at the Workspace level, meaning it applies to every API key associated with that specific environment. This allows organizations to isolate sensitive projects into a dedicated workspace where privacy is guaranteed by default, preventing accidental data leaks to providers that might otherwise retain information for training.
By default, each AI provider on OpenRouter follows its own specific data handling and logging policies. Without the Zero Data Retention guardrail enabled, your prompts and completions might be stored or used for training depending on the provider. Enabling the one-click ZDR feature overrides these defaults by only allowing connections to privacy-compliant providers.
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