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Company — OpenRouter provides a unified API and marketplace for AI models from multiple providers. Developers use it for model selection, routing and billing, while its public usage data offers a view into model adoption.
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OpenRouter provides a unified API and marketplace for AI models from multiple providers. Developers use it for model selection, routing and billing, while its public usage data offers a view into model adoption.
- Founded
- Early 2023
- Focus
- Multi-model inference; routing; model access
- Metrics
- Token volume is usage, not revenue or ARR
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Introduces Private Endpoints
OpenRouter announces enterprise endpoints for private model access.
Source: OpenRouter ↗Adds ElevenLabs audio models
The platform expands into text-to-speech and speech-to-text model access.
Source: OpenRouter ↗Introduces a Batch API
OpenRouter adds a batch interface for asynchronous model workloads.
Source: OpenRouter ↗Announces agreement to join Stripe
The announcement describes a transaction subject to customary closing conditions. It reports over 10 million users and developers and more than 10 trillion daily tokens; these are usage metrics.
Source: OpenRouter ↗Raises $113M Series B
CapitalG leads the round. OpenRouter reports weekly token volume rising from 5 trillion to 25 trillion over six months; token volume is not company revenue.
Source: OpenRouter ↗Discloses $40M across seed and Series A
The combined financing includes a16z, Menlo Ventures and Sequoia. The $40 million is the total across the two rounds.
Source: OpenRouter / GlobeNewswire ↗OpenRouter is founded
The company begins building a common interface for accessing models from multiple AI providers.
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