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OpenRouter

Multimodal AI model access and routing platform

openrouter.ai

Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 10–125
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about OpenRouter

In short: OpenRouter expanded its model marketplace and entered acquisition talks with Stripe for an estimated $1.3 billion.

Company announcements

August 14 OpenRouter

OpenRouter joins Stripe to accelerate its AI marketplace operations

The platform retains its independent branding and roadmap while leveraging Stripe’s infrastructure to serve millions of developers worldwide.

August 12 OpenRouter

OpenRouter enhances Ori Eval with five community-driven improvements.

Developers now see failure causes, provider names, and pre-run cost estimates. The judge avoids grading same-family models. CI integrations support headless runs. Parallel execution accelerates comparisons fivefold.

August 4 OpenRouter

OpenRouter launches Qwen3.8 Max model

The 2.4T-parameter model excels in coding and agent tasks, with open weights due next week and improved benchmark scores.

July 21 OpenRouter

OpenRouter launched new Gemini AI models

The new models offer high throughput and improved coding, knowledge, and multimodal performance.

Media coverage

September 2 Webpronews

China’s Low-Cost AI Surge Undermines OpenAI, Google and Anthropic’s Market Hold

Chinese AI models now cost up to 90% less than U.S. rivals, slashing OpenRouter share for Google, OpenAI and Anthropic from 70% to 30%. Enterprises...

August 3 PitchBook

Everyone is building AI routers. Are they a dead end?

The pipes that steer AI agents to models are sprouting up everywhere, but startups may struggle to turn them into lasting companies.

July 30 Sina Finance

OpenRouter financial data shows: If the acquisition goes through, Stripe's acquisition cost is high.

According to OpenRouter financial data obtained by insiders, if payment giant Stripe eventually acquires the three-year-old startup OpenRouter for nearly $10 billion, the valuation premium of this acquisition is extremely high, about 70 times the company's latest annualized revenue. OpenRouter provides application developers with a one-stop service to access hundreds of AI large models, with the latest annualized revenue of about $140 million, equivalent to monthly revenue of $12 million. Since April, the revenue scale has nearly tripled, while the startup's overall costs are controllable...

July 23 NewsBytes

Chinese AI firms near OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenRouter usage triples

Chinese open-weight AI models, cheaper and rapidly advancing, are narrowing the gap with America’s frontier systems, threatening U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence.

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