Daily · Oct 20, 2026
Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter for $7.5 billion
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, with The New York Times reporting a $7.5 billion deal value. A joint statement from the two companies confirmed the agreement but did not disclose the price. OpenRouter gives developers access to more than 400 AI models through a single API, and the companies say it handles over 10 trillion tokens a day.
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