Stripe to acquire OpenRouter in $7.5 billion deal, report says
Stripe announced it will buy OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, according to The New York Times. The payment company will pay $1.5 billion to founders Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy, with the remaining $6 billion going to investors such as Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. OpenRouter, founded in 2023, raised $113 million in a Series B round led by Alphabet less than three months earlier at a…
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- Stripe to buy OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion to founders
- OpenRouter routes to 400+ models, handling >10 trillion tokens daily for >10 million developers
- Deal values OpenRouter at nearly six times its $1.3 billion valuation from a $113 million Series B
OpenRouter provides a single API that routes requests to more than 400 large language models, including GPT, Claude, Gemini and open‑weight models from China. The startup says it processes more than 10 trillion tokens a day for upward of 10 million developers, with customers that include Nvidia, Zoom and Lovable. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said the purchase is a bet on the economic infrastructure of AI, tying the routing layer into Stripe’s Metronome, Tempo and Privy products to bill and settle token usage in real time.
Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5B
startupfortune.com · 19 October 2026
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