OpenRouter Blog · Jul 2026
OpenRouter announced a brand refresh and new identity, describing the update as a rebrand for its expanded role as AI infrastructure for developers and enterprises.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
OpenRouter is a New York–based AI gateway and marketplace founded in early 2023. Its primary product is a unified, OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests across 400+ models from 70+ providers with automatic fallback, pricing optimization, and enterprise controls.
Primary product
Unified AI gateway / model router for LLMs
Founded
2023
Headquarters
169 Madison Ave #2404, New York, NY 10016, United States
Team size
51-100
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI gateway / LLM inference marketplace
Offices
17 jobs at OpenRouter
Business model
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$153M
Latest round
Series B · May 2026
Latest amount
$113M
May 2026 · CapitalG
Jun 2025 · Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures
Leadership
CEO, Co-Founder
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Co-Founder
Head of Partnerships
Head of Startups
Vice President, Customer Success & Support
Founding Account Executive
Head of Finance & BizOps
Head of Provider Ecosystem
Small, focused, remote-first team with quarterly offsites; developer-first and highly execution-oriented, with a strong product/engineering culture around multi-model AI infrastructure.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public careers materials mention competitive salary and equity, plus fully covered health/dental/vision and an annual work-from-home stipend.
Benefits
Pricing
Credit-based, pay-as-you-go. OpenRouter passes through underlying provider pricing, charges a 5.5% fee on credit purchases ($0.80 minimum), and offers BYOK usage with a 5% fee after the first 1M requests per month.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$19M-$50M annualized revenue (estimate, end-2025 to Mar 2026)
Estimated monthly visits
19.4M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
OpenRouter Blog · Jul 2026
OpenRouter announced a brand refresh and new identity, describing the update as a rebrand for its expanded role as AI infrastructure for developers and enterprises.
OpenRouter Blog · May 2026
Official announcement of OpenRouter’s $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, AMP PBC, Pace Capital, and existing investors a16z and Menlo Ventures.
TechCrunch · May 2026
TechCrunch reports OpenRouter’s $113M Series B and says the round lifted the startup’s valuation to about $1.3B, up from roughly $547M after its prior financing.
The New York Times · May 2026
The Times covers the Series B and positions OpenRouter as a marketplace/exchange for AI models, highlighting its rapid growth and the significance of the funding in the AI infrastructure stack.
The Wall Street Journal · Jun 2025
WSJ covered OpenRouter’s earlier $40M financing, noting back-to-back seed and Series A rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures.