Stripe Closes OpenRouter Acquisition as Weekly Token Volume Jumps 2.3x
deedydas · x · 2026-11-11
OpenRouter has officially been acquired by Stripe, closing just 3 months after the intent to acquire was announced, with weekly token volume up 2.3x in that window. Launched in 2023 as "the unified interface for LLMs" with only 4 models, it now supports 500+ models, with token usage up 30,000x to a 4.5+ quadrillion-token annual run rate. CEO Alex Atallah previously co-founded OpenSea; Menlo Ventures backed the company from seed through Series B, betting that AI usage would be massive and multi-model reality would persist.
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