Stripe agrees to acquire AI router OpenRouter
Original title: Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5B
The New York Times puts the price at $7.5 billion, nearly six times a Series B valuation of about $1.3 billion.
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, which routes developer requests across more than 400 AI models through one API. The companies confirmed the agreement but did not disclose the price; The New York Times reported $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion earmarked for founders. OpenRouter says it processes more than 10 trillion tokens a day for upward of 10 million developers. The companies have not said how routing neutrality will be preserved after the sale.
Unconfirmed: Neither company has publicly confirmed the $7.5 billion price or how default routing will be governed.
- Alphabet led a $113 million Series B less than three months earlier at about $1.3 billion.
- Named customers include Nvidia, Zoom, and Lovable.
- TechCrunch, citing people familiar with the talks, said Stripe outbid suitors including Databricks.
- Stripe already sells Metronome token billing, Tempo micropayments, and Privy agent wallets.
- A recent Google partnership lets businesses sell inside Google’s AI Mode and Gemini app.
- Vendors
- Stripe
- Products
- OpenRouterMetronomeTempoPrivy
- Organizations
- AlphabetDatabricksNvidiaZoomLovable
From the original article
4 min read at startupfortune.com
Stripe is paying nearly 6x OpenRouter's three-month-old valuation for a company that doesn't build AI models. It builds the switch that decides which model gets used. Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the startup that lets developers tap more than 400 AI models through a single API, in a deal reported at $7.
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