Monid Raises $7.7M to Build an OpenRouter for Agent Tools With 2,500 APIs, Pay-Per-Call
SimplyAnnisa · x · 2026-10-07
Monid (onyx.dev), founded by a former OpenRouter employee, has raised $7.7M to become "the OpenRouter for agent tools."
- One connection gives agents access to 2,500 APIs: leads, SEO, marketing, search, ecommerce, stocks, video/image/music/3D generation, agent email & phone
- Agents can discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime — pay per call with zero subscriptions
- The pitch mirrors OpenRouter's one-key-replaces-a-dozen-accounts model, applied to SaaS tooling agents typically pay monthly subscriptions for
A notable infrastructure and pricing-model play for anyone building agents.
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