STRIPE WEIGHS $10B DEAL FOR OPENROUTER Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal that could value the AI-model marketplace at rough

STRIPE WEIGHS $10B DEAL FOR OPENROUTER Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal that could value the AI-model marketplace at roughly $10 billion, according to The WSJ. An agreement could be announced soon, although the talks may still fall apart or attract another buyer. OpenRouter gives more than five million developers access to hundreds of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and open-weight providers through one interface. Customers can compare models, switch providers and route requests without building a separate integration for each company. The reported price is notable. OpenRouter was valued at $1.3 billion in May, meaning a $10 billion sale would be nearly eight times that valuation only months later. Stripe already handles OpenRouter's payments, invoicing, tax collection and fraud tools. Buying the company would move Stripe beyond processing AI revenue and into the infrastructure developers use to access, compare and pay for models.