OpenRouter now serves 10M developers burning 10 trillion tokens daily
vista8 · x · 2026-09-28
Key numbers and backstory for the AI model aggregator OpenRouter:
- Scale today: burning 10 trillion tokens per day across 10 million developers.
- Fundraising history: VCs initially passed, viewing it as just a "wrapper".
- Two inflection points: the Claude Sonnet 3.7 release, and OpenClaw.
- Founder's thesis: the future is multi-model — no single model will win everything, so the aggregation layer has durable value.
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