Switchyard
Generally available1M context
Summary
Switchyard is a language model from NVIDIA, released on 21 Sept 2026. It accepts text and generates text, with a 1M-token context window.
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...
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | NVIDIA |
|---|---|
| Release date | 21 Sept 2026 [OpenRouter] |
| Status | Generally available |
| Context window | 1M (1,000,000 tokens) [OpenRouter] |
| Input | Text [OpenRouter] |
| Output | Text [OpenRouter] |
| Reasoning mode | No [OpenRouter] |
| Tool calling | No [OpenRouter] |
| Structured output | No [OpenRouter] |
Switchyard API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter nvidia/switchyard | – | – | – | 1M | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Switchyard?
Switchyard has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M), according to OpenRouter.
When was Switchyard released?
NVIDIA released Switchyard on 21 Sept 2026, according to OpenRouter.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.