Stripe is in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10 billion, WSJ says

htrp · hn · 2026-07-24

The Wall Street Journal reports that Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace, for roughly $10 billion.

If the deal happens, it would be one of the biggest AI infrastructure/business acquisitions to date and would put a payments giant in control of a major model-routing layer.

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