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Line chart showing OpenRouter weekly token volume growing from 5 trillion in November 2025 to 25 trillion in May 2026 to 70 trillion in August 2026, illustrating explosive growth in AI model routing traffic across 400 models.

Stripe's $7B OpenRouter buy makes AI model routing pay

AI model routing just landed its biggest deal. Stripe is buying OpenRouter for over $7 billion, merging token routing with billing for 10 million developers.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 20, 2026