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Stripe targets AI routing infrastructure with $8 billion OpenRouter deal

8/23/2026

Stripe's agreement to acquire OpenRouter, with a source familiar with the matter pegging the value at slightly more than $8 billion, puts the payments company's year-long push into AI infrastructure in focus.

OpenRouter routes developer queries across more than 400 AI models through a single interface, processing more than 10 trillion tokens per day for a community of more than 10 million developers and companies.

The companies did not disclose the price; Stripe declined to comment on the figure, and OpenRouter did not respond to a request for comment.

The numbers OpenRouter, founded in 2023, raised $113 million in a May funding round led by Alphabet's independent growth fund CapitalG, with Menlo Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz among its earlier investors.

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