diff --git a/packages/ai/src/providers/openrouter.ts b/packages/ai/src/providers/openrouter.ts
index 10b7fdd1e91..4bcdb3f9dba 100644
--- a/packages/ai/src/providers/openrouter.ts
+++ b/packages/ai/src/providers/openrouter.ts
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export const configure = (input: ModelOptions = {}) => {
   const route = configuredRoute(input)
   return {
     id,
-    model: (modelID: string | ModelID) => route.model({ id: modelID }),
+    model: (modelID: string | ModelID) => route.model<OpenRouterProviderOptionsInput>({ id: modelID }),
     configure,
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/ai/test/provider-options/openrouter.types.ts b/packages/ai/test/provider-options/openrouter.types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8982a50edb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ai/test/provider-options/openrouter.types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { LLM } from "../../src"
+import { OpenRouter } from "../../src/providers"
+
+const model = OpenRouter.provider.model("anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5")
+
+LLM.request({ model, prompt: "Hello", providerOptions: { openrouter: { usage: true } } })
+
+LLM.request({
+  model,
+  prompt: "Hello",
+  // @ts-expect-error OpenRouter usage must be boolean or an option record.
+  providerOptions: { openrouter: { usage: "yes" } },
+})