OpenRouter is joining Stripe.
We started OpenRouter with a simple mission: intelligence should be multi-model. Today, we are the largest AI marketplace & gateway, processing 10T+ tokens daily on 400+ models.
Joining @Stripe gives us the opportunity to accelerate that mission.
OpenRouter will continue as OpenRouter:
Same name, same product, same roadmap, and the same commitment to helping you find and use the best model for every task.
To our customers, partners, providers, team, and the entire OpenRouter community: thank you for building with and believing in us. We’re just getting started.
More on why we made this decision and what it means for our 10m+ developers & businesses: https://t.co/OsrW5jV6kN
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
Why it matters
If your stack routes inferenceRunning a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.Full definition → through OpenRouter, that gateway is now owned by Stripe, worth factoring into dependency and pricing assumptions even though the name, product and roadmap are said to continue unchanged.
