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Sacra's June 2026 research report on the inference-economy gateway market independently corroborates Merge Gateway's existence and launch timing, stating that Merge Gateway launched in April 2026 as a universal API middleware / LLM-routing offering. The report situates Merge Gateway alongside OpenRouter, Vercel's AI Ga The report highlights the March 2026 LiteLLM supply-chain breach—allegedly exfiltrating about 1TB of private source code, 3TB of customer data, and downstream secret API keys from customers including Mercor—as the security catalyst accelerating consolidation around trusted, managed gateway providers. Sacra explicitly l

OpenCode's changelog documents a direct integration with the Merge Gateway AI provider: "Added MERGE Gateway reasoning variants so those model options work correctly," credited to contributor @MatthewFeroz. The change is part of OpenCode Core and ensures that reasoning_effort and model-variant options exposed by the Me The same OpenCode Core release ships related reliability and model-routing improvements that also benefit Merge Gateway-backed sessions, including session compaction that preserves complete recent turns and produces clearer summaries, capped automatic retries with jitter to prevent retry storms, correct sampling defaul

Merge's official changelog dated August 10, 2026 details three Gateway product updates. Per-project guardrails now let organizations configure Prompt Injection Protection and DLP rules independently for each project, so internal tooling projects can stay permissive while customer-data projects get stricter rules, repla Two further Gateway improvements shipped the same day. Gateway now supports Parallel Web Systems as a native web search tool, allowing models routed through Gateway to issue search queries and receive results through the same tool-calling flow developers already use, eliminating the need to wire up a separate search to