OpenRouter

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OpenRouter is an AI model gateway that gives developers a single API endpoint for routing requests across models from many providers. Instead of integrating each vendor separately, an application sends one request and OpenRouter handles model selection, failover, billing and usage accounting across more than 400 models, both proprietary and open weight. The service publishes aggregate usage rankings that have become a widely cited proxy for which models developers actually put into production, since most labs disclose little about real usage. Its position in the stack matters because routing layers determine how easily customers can switch model vendors, which in turn affects pricing power across the industry. The company has been reported as an acquisition target for Stripe at a price above 7 billion dollars. Our coverage has examined that reported deal and what a payments company buying the routing layer implies about where AI spending is expected to concentrate.

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