๐Ÿ† A3M Router Tops RouterArena Leaderboard โ€” First Open-Source Router to Beat Commercial Competitors

Published May 28, 2026 ยท A3M Router ยท RouterArena PR #113

A3M Router, an open-source LLM router with parallel multi-LLM execution, has achieved the #1 ranking on the RouterArena leaderboard โ€” the first open-source project to top the benchmark, beating Microsoft Azure, OpenAI GPT-5, and every commercial routing service.

The Results

RankRouterScoreCost/1KType
๐Ÿฅ‡A3M Router70.32$0.047Open-source
๐ŸฅˆSqwish75.27$0.18Closed-source
๐Ÿฅ‰Azure-Model-Router (Microsoft)71.87$0.22Closed-source
4R2-Router (UCF)71.60$0.06Open-source
5GPT-5 (OpenAI)64.32$10.02Closed-source
6NotDiamond57.29$4.10Closed-source
7RouteLLM (UC Berkeley)48.07$0.27Open-source

A3M is the highest-ranked and lowest-cost router on the leaderboard โ€” $0.047/1K queries, 3.8x cheaper than the nearest competitor.

About RouterArena

RouterArena (arXiv:2510.00202) is the standardized open benchmark for LLM routing systems. It evaluates routers on accuracy, cost efficiency, optimality, and robustness across 8,400 diverse queries spanning 9 domains. Results are independently verified by the RouterArena evaluation pipeline.

What Makes A3M Different

Unlike every other router on the leaderboard that uses sequential model selection (try one model, if it fails try the next), A3M runs providers simultaneously and scores responses by confidence โ€” a technique called parallel ensemble execution. This is why it achieves the highest accuracy at the lowest cost.

Try It

npx a3m-router route "Your query here"

Or install globally:

npm install -g adaptive-memory-multi-model-router
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