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Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
- catlover76 2mo ago[dead]
- zacharyozer 2mo ago> Earlier this year, Atallah described OpenRouter as the AI equivalent of Stripe. Not sure I understand how this is strategically aligned for Stripe but certainly an interesting comparison.
- closetheloopdev 2mo agoOpenRouter uses Stripe to handle payments [1], so this acquisition hopefully will reduce OpenRouter's cost while increasing Stripe's revenue. [1] https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/openrouter-and-stripe https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/openrouter-and-stripe
- toomuchtodo 2mo agoStripe seems to appear to be attempting to compete with the US Federal Reserve as the core dollar payment processor while also dipping into the same for tokens. Core value exchange platform, dollars, tokens, whatever. A bit of a less exciting version of Dune. “The transaction volume must flow.”
- bix6 2mo ago> Every company in the Forbes AI 50 that monetizes does so on Stripe. That’s chilling.
- HDBaseT 2mo agoStripe started as a result of the PayPal Mafia. "In 2011 the company received a $2 million investment, including contributions from Elon Musk, PayPal founder Peter Thiel" [1]. Also fun fact from the Founder's Wikipedia page "In November 2024, Collison was criticized for visiting Israel and posting an image with the Israeli flag,[31] amid the Gaza war."[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison
- WhereIsTheTruth 2mo agocough TaxJar, acquired by Stripe, they ended up doubling the price Rebilly, same story Lemon Squeezy, same story Bridge, same story
- superkuh 2mo agoPerhaps the US State Dept. used it's strong relationship with Stripe to encourage this purchase as a geopolitical move. They've done so before with companies like eBay and Microsoft to neuter the P2P telephone access network that was "Skype".
- reilly3000 2mo agoYea they love centralized brokers, exchanges, etc.
- porridgeraisin 2mo agoBoth are in the business of putting a single API key in front of a fragmented ecosystem and charging a convenience fee. This middleman business is naturally coalescing. The nature of the ecosystem also means that pricing is closely tied to "procurement" which could be routing, limits, whatever at a company level. If stripe wants to be _the_ one that charges that fee, they either have to continuously try to ensure that all the different middlenen use stripe (most of them do!) but even better is to acquire the largest middleman. You don't want someone else who happens to do all the routing+limits+policies, end up not using stripe. They already have this hold in existing stripe financial products where they apply all the policies, and everything goes through them. It is also an easy deal from an investor point of view.
- rvz 2mo agoThis is even before them acquiring PayPal. If Stripe bought PayPal in 2022, it would be immediately blocked. Not this time. One of the only near monopolies that is seemingly allowed and it is even praised. But who cares. Nothing to see here (as long as AGI is coming it doesn't matter anyway).
- jastanton 2mo agoWhy would PayPal acquiring OpenRouter make it any more of a monopoly than it is? Not saying it is or isn't, but OpenRouter isn't even a financial company.
- rvz 2mo agoI am saying it is a near monopoly as Stripe is the one that is close to acquiring PayPal in the first place. [0] [0] https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/stripe-advent-in-talks-to-buy-paypal-ea6aa2ba https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/stripe-advent-in-talks-to...
- Taikhoom10 2mo ago[flagged]
- muppetman 2mo agoI still find it hilarious that AI is so bad you need something to sit in front of it to pick models for you. And that's a normal, accepted thing.
- simonw 2mo agoThat's not a very common pattern, to be honest. A bunch of people have been experimenting with automatic model routing recently but mainly as a cost optimization, since tokens for the best models have got expensive once you start piping millions of tokens through them. I haven't seen much evidence that model routing is being widely used yet. I think it's still more of an experimental mechanism right now.
- bensyverson 2mo agoOpenRouter is a proxy, not an automatic router. Rather than building API clients for five different AI providers, you build one client to OpenRouter, and switching models become extremely easy. This matters when new models are coming out virtually every day.
- sajithdilshan 2mo agoDoes that means if by any chance all frontier model companies agrees to use an open protocol for the API open router would go out of business?
- benced 2mo agoAll the model companies except kind of Anthropic (and even they half-assedly do) implement the OpenAI API. It's not an open standard but, like the S3 API, it effectively is. And, to answer your question, no. The existence of a common API makes it trivial to change zero code and send requests to a different model.
- solidasparagus 2mo agoThe Anthropic messages API is a competing standard (it's just better than the OpenAI API which even OpenAI has moved away from) and some Chinese providers use it as their standard.
- Gecko4072 2mo agoHow can a middle man for api calls be worth so much? Their market share can’t be very large right? For comparison, $7B is more than market cap of Lyft, Dolby, and Alaska Airlines. What is happening? https://stockanalysis.com/list/mid-cap-stocks/ https://stockanalysis.com/list/mid-cap-stocks/
- blitzar 2mo agoIf any of those companies put Ai into their pitch they too would be worth billions
- andrewinardeer 2mo agoI landscape gardens... With AI. Pay me.
- chistev 2mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444508
- throw-the-towel 2mo agoYou've already seen Long Island Blockchain, now get ready for... Alaska AI Lines!
- codybontecou 2mo agoLLM traces are supposedly very valuable. I imagine OpenRouter has one of the most extensive and diverse set of traces in the world.
- ruined 2mo agoopenrouter prompt and i/o logging is off by default https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/privacy/data-collection https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/privacy/data-collection the providers you route to will of course have their own policies, which openrouter surfaces to you through the webui and api. you can even configure automatic routing to select providers based on your policy preferences.
- code51 2mo agoOpenRouter should first fix their support. No support exists when things go wrong!
- mianos 2mo agoThey do reach out pretty quick when your usage takes a huge dive after you move to one of the single provider plans that offer hard to believe possibly unsustainable value.
- bushido 2mo agoThis kind of makes a lot of sense. While my first stake was surprise that a proxy is valued at such a high rate, But it really comes down to the terms if open router is allowed by their terms to see the prompts and responses, Then that's very, very valuable data today for any model improvements and other opportunities that people might be looking for.
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- nannal 2mo agoRIP free deepseek access.
- minimaxir 2mo agoFree model usage is controlled by the LLM provider, not OpenRouter. Both parties have their own incentives to allow it and that would not change with different owners.
- password4321 2mo ago> that would not change with different owners Bookmarking this confidence because people speaking confidently bothers me; we'll see.
- nannal 1mo agoFree deepseek ended.
- sparkling 2mo agoThe free DeepSeek depended on full data sharing straight to China.
- LunaSea 2mo agoUnlike ChatGPT which depends on selling the full data straight to the US.
- skeledrew 2mo agoHistorically acquisitions have never really been good for customers. Time for me to look for an OpenRouter alternative? At least they're also as easy to switch from as the model providers they proxy.
- PetahNZ 2mo agoI'm working on a SaaS where you can switch between different OpenRouters on the fly. /s
- Taikhoom10 2mo ago[flagged]
- atomicnumber3 2mo agoStripes founders aren't suits but they're just as eager to make money. Their payments business is low margin and they're hungry for anything higher margin they can attach.
- Taikhoom10 2mo agoWell, they should be motivated by profit, especially if they can create an integrated solution, the convenience means everybody wins.
- cowsandmilk 2mo agoYeah, Amazon didn’t let its low margin retail business prevent them from taking high margins in AWS. I’m not sure why it is assumed Stripe would stay low margin.
- Klonoar 2mo agoI don’t think you understand just how much money Stripe currently makes.
- christophilus 2mo ago
- Aurornis 2mo agoOpenRouter raised money at a $1.3 billion valuation a few months ago, if the NYTimes reported valuation is accurate. Going from a $1.3b valuation to a $7b exit in a couple months is an amazing return for those investors. I hope the OpenRouter employees got some decent equity out of this
- Taikhoom10 2mo agoThey should just hold Stripe stock, plus there are always liquidation preferences so it is not so black and white
- dannyw 2mo agoOpen weight models did take off significantly over the past couple of months. You can see their exponential curve in https://openrouter.ai/rankings#top-models https://openrouter.ai/rankings#top-models It's so significant that even OpenAI is doing promos on OpenRouter. It's 50% cheaper to use Luna (provider: OpenAI) on OpenRouter, than via OpenAI's first party platform.
- jjcm 2mo agoI'm surprised OpenRouter went for 7B, while fal.ai just raised at $8b, despite fal having far less traffic (semrush reports ~5x more traffic to openrouter). They seem like very parallel businesses, just with focuses on different models (creative models vs LLMs).
- Taikhoom10 2mo ago[flagged]
- btown 2mo agoA large missing link for AWS Bedrock is Gemini model support [0]. And this is a vital feature, because Gemini itself (as far as I'm aware) does not have a real-time daily or weekly hard spend cap in the case of misconfigured or compromised callers [1][2]. Meta's closed source models, too, are only available on OpenRouter (and it's touted as a first-class recommendation on [3]). So, in many ways, OpenRouter is the only game in town to access some of the highest-funded model families on the market through a single API endpoint. I'm unsure why AWS is ceding this territory (there have to be ways to allow users to opt into the lesser governance inherent in using third party providers, while not diminishing the brand's governance requirements). But, since they are, it's a meaningful opportunity left open. === [0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-cards.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-c... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1szv8cr/warning_google_cloudgemini_api_spend_caps_do_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1szv8cr/warnin... [2] https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/13/google-users-fight-for-refunds-as-unauthorized-api-usage-bills-soar/5239160 https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/13/google-users-fi... [3] https://developer.meta.com/ai/products/meta-model-api/ https://developer.meta.com/ai/products/meta-model-api/
- Taikhoom10 2mo ago[dead]
- teravor 2mo ago> switching costs what are they? all you have to do is change a URL and a token in your agent harness.
- Taikhoom10 2mo ago[flagged]
- 0gs 2mo agoyeah, i bet this seems like a good deal in a few years, we'll see. remember Poe haha that was a similar kinda thing but openrouter waited until the market was mature
- alberth 2mo agoI wonder if this deal is primarily just to buy payment volume. OpenAI just announced earlier this week that Ayden would become their payment provider (when it was previously Stripe). And OpenRouter has a large percentage of overall AI payment volume for all the major labs. Both OpenAI and OpenRouter represent ~$100B in payment volume, whereas Stripe in total doing ~$2T. Two customer doing ~5% of your total volume who didn’t even exist a few years ago, must be kind of scary for Stripe. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rise-ai-shopping-pushes-merchants-protect-loyalty-adyen-says-2026-08-13/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rise-ai-sho... https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-2025-update https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-2025-update
- tyre 2mo agoStripe would lock in volume but how exactly are they monetizing that? Any margin the get from OpenRouter is money extracted from OpenRouter’s revenue (which is now theirs.)
- giancarlostoro 2mo ago7 billion one off for 100 billion annually? If I am understanding that correctly it feels like a no brainer to me… Also if you think about it differently… OpenRouter is adjacent to what Stripe is but for getting access to AI models. If they dont mess this up they could invest in openerouter and grow that 100b pie.
- notatoad 2mo ago$100b is payment volume, not revenue. Stripe gross revenue from those payments would be on the order of tenths of a percent of that.
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoPlus the platform fee that OpenRouter makes? 5 billion a year?
- EastSmith 2mo agoIf someone from Stripe / OpenRouter is listening, please let me provide Open Router OAuth to my users and let me take a cut of their usage. Apple takes 30, I would take whatever the users are willing to pay. 5 to 15 is reasonable.
- BLKNSLVR 2mo agoI'm still amazed at Apple's 30%, it's just so brazenly high (like: "fuck you, we're Apple, we do what we want and you'll lick it up"). Unfortunately, too, other companies follow Apple's lead, and so this massive rent seeking percentage has become normalised.
- Marciplan 2mo agoI can totally agree that Apple sucks for doing this, but you seem to insinuate they started this. As always Apple wasn’t first not even tenth: Nintendo, Steam, Xbox, Kindle all did it prior to “the platform economy” 3)
- BLKNSLVR 2mo agoDidn't know there was prior art of that 30% scale, as I generally avoid as much of that shit as I can, Apple is the one I hear about the most. I amend my prior comments (with actually being able to amend them) to Apple sucks as much as the rest of the rent seekers, and in reference to Aeolun's comment, it doubly sucks that enough people choose to lick it up that the rent seekers don't feel ashamed of their rent seekery, but in fact profit handsomely from it, thus encouraging others to follow suit. It feels ridiculous that you can't buy directly from the software publisher - like the old internet when they were called programs. I feel I may be on the end of pointing and laughing at the old man, but the situation now is literally a gatekeeping middle-man that gets a 30% cut. WTF? Nice work if you can get it. Makes me feel like a rube (in a significant majority, mind) for the few games I've bought off Steam. Eesh, even GOG is 30%. Epic's seems reasonable at 12% and only after the first million in revenue per year. Software publishers need a 'donate' button on their websites where erstwhile pirates can cough launder cough their procurements.
- powvans 2mo agoEveryone seems to be asking why this a great strategic fit for Stripe. Stripe can now provide tools to every product that sells metered AI usage and take a cut. This isn't about extracting a small percent on the tokens flowing from your coding agents to your model of choice. It's about all the products that are going to come to market and monetize metered usage. Want to analyze your 2026 tax return? Use VisorAI's Tax Agent and pay only for what you use. Stripe provides all the accounting, payment processing, ships money to vendors, and takes a bit off the top. Trillions of dollars moving from the labor market to the token market? It's $10B per point in fees for every trillion.
- swyx 2mo agosorry did i just read a tax agent ad in a HN comment
- tomhow 2mo agoIt seems that way but I don't think it is. That user hasn't posted any similar promotional-seeming messages in any other recent comments. I believe they were meaning to offer an example to illustrate the point they're making about how Stripe can generate revenue by owning intermediary APIs.
- powvans 2mo agoHa, no I just tried to think of an example and an accountant wearing a visor turned AI came to mind. Pardon my hallucinations. It happens to meat sacks too. Of course, of course, it turns out that name is already taken. Though not anything accounting related. A million monkeys all armed with a million typewriters is quite something.
- tyre 2mo agoTo people asking why, this is a good lesson on the Collison’s ambitions. Stripe is one of the best API companies in the world. They know how to serve high volumes of latency and availability sensitive requests. They’ve abstracted the financial rails for payments and now want to abstract the rails for LLMs. They’re the perfect company to own OpenRouter. Tokens are simply a lightweight valuable asset. Stripe can serve as the middleman as well as anyone. They know how to route to many providers (payment rails) with huge differences in service characteristics. LLM providers are far easier. Then they can work this into an offering where users can subscribe to tokens and use them across services. It solves one of the core monetization challenges of every AI company: how do you price when your costs are variable on usage, but nobody can make sense of charging by token? From here, they can start hosting their own models and competing as an AWS for tokens. They can be the best provider of $OPEN_MODEL, or their own, and optimize for you.
- absolutenobody0 2mo ago[dead]
- 27183 2mo agounless it's all just tulip mania, then they just spent $7B on nothing
- LPisGood 2mo agoHere are some things that are abundantly clear to me. 1.) LLMs are useful for programming 2.) Open models are excellent and will continue to improve 3.) Economies of scale and ease of access mean self hosting is out of the question for a large number of users This means that even if the largest labs are not worth trillions and a large amount of the data center build out is not as valuable as the builders project and GPU/RAM prices plummet, it will not matter at all for this business. People will want to buy cheap open source tokens from a centralized trusted provider. $7 billion for a business with little overhead that is already within their core competency and has strategic growth potential seems like a very good deal.
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- MagicMoonlight 2mo ago[dead]
- polytely 2mo agoAs an openrouter user this is better than most alternatives I guess
- throw03172019 2mo agoRamp LLM Router Stripe LLM Router(?) What’s up with finance companies getting into LLM routers?
- rglover 2mo agoThey have the unique advantage of seeing where money is flowing and are positioning for the most likely future based on their analysis.
- aabhay 2mo agoThe strategy here is that the same services that Stripe offers for payments have corollaries in the LLM world. Security, user management, perhaps injection attack monitoring, etc. However I think they dearly overpaid for this as the core technology behind Stripe (fraud detection and integration with global banks) is hard to replicate. Even with the features mentioned above I think the technologies behind OpenRouter are vastly easier to replicate, perhaps even trivial now.
- Aeroi 2mo agoI'll save you $7b. https://api.anthropic.com https://api.anthropic.com https://api.openai.com/v1 https://api.openai.com/v1
- mikalauskas 2mo agoThey don't accept bitcoins
- charcircuit 2mo agoNeither does OpenRouter with Stripe for what it's worth.
- HDBaseT 2mo agoWhat do you mean "OpenRouter with Stripe" are you suggesting they will remove the Bitcoin/Crypto payment rail?
- charcircuit 2mo agoI mean that OpenRouter uses Coinbase to handle crypto for them.
- ljlolel 2mo agocurrently my router takes stablecoin through Stripe TrustedRouter.com
- siwatanejo 2mo agoThey never had a bitcoin payment rail, and the "crypto" one only accept(ed) USDC because Stripe accepts USDC.
- shawnmuggle 1mo agoRight. OpenRouter itself never took Bitcoin, USDC via Coinbase or Stripe only. If you want to pay with Bitcoin Lightning, you can pay OpenRouter in sats via ROZO Checkout.
- siliconc0w 2mo agoI don't really understand the value -add, so far "smart" routing currently produces worse results at higher cost and static routing can be done yourself trivially. Plus the risk of sending the most sensitive data you have to a third party.
- polski-g 2mo agoI don't think you understand what Openrouter's product is.
- matt-p 2mo agoEven ignoring routing, it's still very 'nice' to be able to buy almost any model in one place. Amazing for enterprises, or companies who are letting users choose from a variety of models for ai tools.
- siliconc0w 2mo agoEnterprises don't just send their data to any company with GPUs - they need security reviews, contacts, etc. They're assuredly using BYOK - not the marketplace.
- byzantinegene 2mo agosource? most benchmarks show "smart" routing producing near-identical accuracy and 50-75% cheaper costs.
- truetraveller 2mo agoI had consistent problems (5 months back) with OpenRouter and other providers. And very hard to debug. I used the provider directly (Google) and worked perfectly.
- mattfrommars 2mo agoCongrats to the OpenRouter team. I vividly remember back in 2023/2024, I was sitting on my sofa thinking, "there has to be a market to abstract data access layer, something like Terraform but for LLM provider to avoid vendor lockin". Only if I had access to capital to build something like that at that time, I could have been my try for an AI start up.
- nlpnerd 2mo agoExcept there are like a dozen Openrouter clones out there with nowhere near the same traction. Not as easy as people believe to build a successful startup. The team probably had the right experience and advantage from building OpenSEA.
- thway15269037 2mo agoTerrible news for the market. Even as someone who dislikes AI, it's terrible. Stripe is a horrible company and more market consolidation is very worrisome. Hope someone clones it and they take a loss at it.
- thway15269037 2mo agoAlso someone start counting days until they implement mandatory KYC and AML into request processing.
- willis936 2mo agoRight? Why is fintech taking control over one of the few empowerment tools in the AI space? This isn't about money.
- alessandrobinda 2mo ago[dead]
- mkoubaa 2mo agoWe buying inflation burritos with tokens ain't we
- stevenicr 2mo agoDoes this mean they will be censoring openrouter? Is there an open source alternative for when the censoring begins?
- dr_dshiv 2mo agoCongrats to all parties. Makes me more likely to use openrouter and excited for where stripe is heading.
- sentinel1909 2mo agoLe sigh. The enshitification will be inevitable. Back to my own brain for my coding projects.
- sentinel1909 2mo agoLe sigh. The enshitification will be inevitable. Soon this wonderful resource will no longer exist.
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- daniel_iversen 2mo agoI hate people linking to paywalled articles, wish it was against the HN terms. Here’s another link to an article about the acquisition; https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/16/stripe-reportedly-finalizes-deal-buy-ai-model-router-openrouter-7b/ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/16/stripe-reportedly-finali...
- tiagod 2mo agoI've found some amazing articles through HN that had a paywall.
- chanux 2mo agoIt was a nice service. A bit worried (probably irrationally) how it's gonna be in the future. Congrats to the team anyway.
- sinuhe69 2mo agoAny implication for the privacy and confidentiality of our queries? Openrouter yes sees everything. But as long as they are independent and establishing their core business on privacy and confidentiality reputation, I feel more comfortable with this than with a new broker. AI queries can contain more sensitive information than just financials. And financial informations are protected by law, btw. AI queries, however, are not.
- idorosen 2mo agoAs a payments processor, Stripe has conversion data. They can route based on ROI with end-to-end A/B testing or online optimization. There's a tricky credit assignment / multi-touch attribution problem to solve for some use cases, too, that could benefit from transfer learning across their customers. Also, the (unstructured) data they collect from OpenRouter users can be used to improve many other dimensions of their business, including fraud detection. Lastly, both businesses look fairly similar in unit economics if you squint hard enough; for example, they both collect a ~3-5% transaction fee from most customers.
- RataNova 2mo ago[dead]
- zuzululu 2mo agoi feel really happy for the founders! congratssssss
- tzury 2mo agoAs opposed to PayPal which is now talking in front of the mirror. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/breaking-paypal-talks-sell-itself-212845805.html?.tsrc=applewf https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/breaking-p...
- lvl155 2mo agoI’ve stopped using OpenRouter this year. And I stopped using different models for testing. Anthropic won. I’ve even let my OpenAI API credits expire (which is a ridiculous policy in itself) because I had no need for them.
- condwanaland 2mo agoHello ClosedRouter!
- mikkelam 2mo agoOpenrouter is super well positioned in the market. I've always believed in staying model agnostic and being able to jump around providers as their intelligence, cost per intelligence and/or latency issues arise. Openrouter will win as long as there is competition in the market
- pineapple_opus 2mo ago> Openrouter will win as long as there is competition in the market True. Lots of companies depend on this lever. The moment someone emerges as monopoly, which is very very unlikely to happen, that will create dent in such space like in which openrouter operates.
- dewey 2mo agoI guess it's pretty useful to see the payment volumes of all these startups and then "inhouse" the fees as extra margin, especially if it's a relatively thin wrapper like OpenRouter.
- dools 2mo agoIt’s astonishing to me that something so easy to build can be worth so much money!
- jgalt212 2mo agoIt's pretty easy to dismiss this as "Yay, we have an AI strategy!", but Stripe is a well run place. Then again, we've seen even well run places get AI psychosis. I'm a de minimus customer, and not a shareholder so I don't have a dog in this fight so I can just sit back and watch.
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- DeltaCoast 2mo agoI get the impression they’re doing this for the network that OpenRouter has built, something like 8 million devs on one side and hundreds of services on the other side. If more and more software will be built this way then it’s a good bet this will grow into trillions in transaction volume and Stripe can own a percent like Visa and Mastercard and any network.
- WhereIsTheTruth 2mo agoI'm not a OpenRouter user, but if i were, i'd move away from it This is what i hate about modern entrepreneurship, everything is always built for a short term plan Family businesses where tradition, trust, values and reputation are kept and transmitted across generations don't exist in tech and it's just sad It's just build fast, milk users, cash out, and move on No loyalty, no pride in the work, and zero respect for the people who actually supported you And actually, it's a defensive move from Stripe, because OpenRouter was quietly becoming the way AI agents pay each other in USDC via x402, and Stripe probably saw this as a threat, specially with OpenAI already moving away from Stripe They'll nerf you, to protect themselves, they'll make you dependent on their merchant system for the juicy fees
- josh2600 2mo agoTrustedrouter.com is a privacy protecting version of openrouter built by some pretty serious engineers. Might be worth a look for anyone who needs this sort of thing.
- PreownedPlaid 2mo agoThe product people actually pay for is one bill and one API key. Routing is the marketing. Switching models without opening a new vendor account is the thing I use it for.
- abrbhat 2mo agoMaybe an angle here is that tokens are being looked at as pseudo-currency..