Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter in deal reportedly worth over $7 billion

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace and routing platform used to manage inference across hundreds of models and providers, in a deal reportedly valued at more than $7 billion. Bloomberg reported the acquisition price at more than $7 billion. Stripe and OpenRouter did not disclose financial terms when officially announcing the transaction. OpenRouter currently processes more than 10 trillion tokens per day across more than 400 AI models and serves over 10 million developers and companies, according to the company. The platform allows businesses to route AI requests based on factors including task complexity, price, speed and reliability. Customers include Nvidia, Zoom and Lovable. Stripe said the acquisition will expand its efforts to help AI companies manage the economics of inference. The payments company already offers Token Billing and other infrastructure designed around AI usage. “Tokens are the central currency for companies building with AI,” Stripe cofounder and CEO Patrick Collison said. The companies said combining Stripe’s financial infrastructure with OpenRouter’s model routing technology could help businesses optimize both revenue and AI c...