OpenRouter
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OpenRouter is a New York-based AI model exchange that lets developers and enterprises access, route, and optimize across hundreds of AI models through a single API 1. Founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah (a co-founder of OpenSea), the platform sits between application developers and the major model providers, abstracting away differences in pricing, capacity, and capability 12.
By May 2026, OpenRouter was processing roughly 25 trillion tokens per week — about 100 trillion per month — representing a 5x increase from six months prior 13.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2025-06 | Series A | $40M | Andreessen Horowitz | Menlo Ventures 1 |
| 2026-05-26 | Series B | $113M | CapitalG | NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures 123 |
The Series B valued the company at approximately $1.3B post-money, more than double its $547M post-money valuation a year earlier 1.
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“OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year,” TechCrunch, May 26, 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/openrouter-more-than-doubles-valuation-to-1-3b-in-a-year/↩↩↩↩↩↩
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“OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing,” SiliconANGLE, May 26, 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/26/openrouter-raises-113m-bring-order-enterprise-ai-inference-routing/↩↩
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“OpenRouter Raises $113 Million CapitalG-led Series B as Weekly Volume Explodes to 25T Tokens,” Yahoo Finance / PR Newswire, May 26, 2026. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openrouter-raises-113-million-capitalg-131500093.html↩↩