Checked May 20 2026
OpenRouter
OpenRouter gives software developers a single API to access 500+ LLMs from 60+ providers, routing requests by cost, speed, or performance with unified billing.
Source mix7 reported2 company7 data vendor
Evidence notes
Who uses it: Software developers and engineering teams at companies of all sizes who are building AI applications on top of multiple LLMs and want to avoid maintaining separate integrations, contracts, and billing relationships with each model provider.[2]+3Reported
Product: Developers call a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint; OpenRouter routes each request to the selected or best-fit model across 60+ providers, handles failover across 50+ cloud providers, normalizes token accounting, and consolidates billing into a single...
Source ledger
- [1]OpenRouter raises $40 million to simplify AI model overload - Help Net Security
- [2]OpenRouter nabs $40M in funding for its AI inference API - SiliconANGLE
- [3]"Large Model Aggregation Platform" OpenRouter in Talks for New Funding Round, Valuation Nears $1.3 Billion
- [4]OpenRouter Is Raising $120M at a $1.3B Valuation — and It's Processing More Tokens Than Most AI Companies Make – Top AI Product
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