Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter as Token Usage Hits 4.5+ Quadrillion Annual Rate
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-25
Menlo Ventures announced Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter. Since its 2023 launch, OpenRouter's token usage has grown 30,000x to a 4.5+ quadrillion annual run rate. The platform expanded from 4 to 500+ models. The report highlights that agentic workloads overtook human usage earlier this year, with a single agent request consuming roughly 15x the tokens of a standard request.
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