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OpenRouter

OpenRouter is an AI model gateway that gives developers and enterprises a single API to access, route, and manage 400+ large language models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and hundreds of others — without committing to any single vendor. Instead of integrating separately with each AI provider, customers point their apps at OpenRouter and it handles routing, fallback, cost optimization, and analytics. The platform takes roughly a 5% fee on top of underlying inference costs. Its core value prop is avoiding lock-in: if one model gets expensive, goes down, or is outperformed, OpenRouter silently reroutes traffic. It serves roughly 8 million developers and AI-native startups up to large enterprises running production AI workloads and agents. The company was founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah (co-founder of NFT marketplace OpenSea) and Louis Vichy.

$1.3B valuation · 82 employees · 28 open roles

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