OpenRouter

Platform that connects AI applications with LLMs.

HQ: Remote

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

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

169 Madison Ave #2404, New York, NY 10016, United States

Business model

credit-based pay-as-you-go API usage

usage fees on credit purchases

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) platform fee

enterprise sales / contracts

model-routing marketplace

Funding

Stage

Series B

Total raised

$153M

Latest round

Series B · May 2026

Latest amount

$113M

Series B

May 2026 · CapitalG

$113M

Seed + Series A

Jun 2025 · Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures

$40M

People & investors

Leadership

Alex Atallah

CEO, Co-Founder

Chris Clark

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Co-Founder

Head of Partnerships

Head of Startups

Vice President, Customer Success & Support

Katy Hammond

Founding Account Executive

Brandon Lewis

Head of Finance & BizOps

Shashank Goyal

Head of Provider Ecosystem

Investors

Work & culture

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

competitive salary

equity

fully covered health, dental, and vision plans

annual work-from-home stipend

quarterly offsites

Product & market

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

—OpenAI-compatible unified API
—400+ models across 70+ providers
—automatic fallback and load balancing across providers
—price/latency/throughput routing controls
—no markup on inference pricing
—enterprise data-policy and EU-routing controls

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TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

OAuth

Postman

Discord

Customers

developers

AI-native startups

enterprises

AI app builders

coding-agent and infrastructure teams

Competitors

LiteLLM

Portkey

AWS Bedrock

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway

Together AI

Fireworks AI

DeepInfra

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

≈$19M-$50M annualized revenue (estimate, end-2025 to Mar 2026)

Estimated monthly visits

19.4M

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

support@openrouter.ai 201-472-5267

Latest news

A New Look for OpenRouter

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 Raises $113M Series B

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.

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

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.

OpenRouter, an Exchange for A.I. Models, Raises $113 Million

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.

OpenRouter, a Marketplace for AI Models, Raises $40 Million

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.

Jobs and careers at OpenRouter

26 jobs at OpenRouter

Product Manager, Agent Platform

Remote

Product & Design

Remote (US); United States

3d ago

Remote

Full-time