# How Descript uses OpenRouter

**1–2 hours**: “1+ week → 1–2 hours”

As published on [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/customers/descript). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-31.

- Company: [Descript](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/descript.md)
- Tool: [OpenRouter](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/openrouter.md)
- Industry: [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/artificial-intelligence.md)
- Teams: Agent team, AI Enablement, Media Understanding
- Customer since (as the page says): Active since June 2025.

## The use case: how Descript deploys OpenRouter

Descript uses OpenRouter as its production inference layer for Underlord, its video editing agent, replacing direct integrations with several model developers. It routes requests across many models and inference providers, with per-model provider priority and automatic fallbacks, and uses it to evaluate new models quickly.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of OpenRouter and Descript, not ours.

> OpenRouter removed the per-model integration work that had been putting these evaluations on an engineer's queue. Descript's own agent and harness automate everything around that interface. The work no longer needs to be assigned to anyone.

> It's a perfect outsourcing thing, how to route between models. But with this explosion of open-weight models, the ability to easily integrate new models has become critical to our business.
>
> Keith Simmons, Technical lead, AI Enablement

Source: [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/customers/descript), captured 2026-10-31.

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- [Claude](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/claude.md) — Confirmed
- [Enterpret](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/enterpret.md) — Confirmed
- [Retool](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/retool.md) — Confirmed
- [Baseten](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/baseten.md) — Observed
- [Concourse](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/concourse.md) — Observed
- [Notion](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/notion.md) — Observed

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- [Nous Research](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/nous-research.md) — Observed
- [Proto](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/proto.md) — Observed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-31.

- Checked: the figure 1–2 hours is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Descript.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Descript.
- Checked: Descript uses OpenRouter. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-31.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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