# OpenRouter

> OpenRouter is a unified API gateway for large language models. Through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, developers can reach 400+ models from 60+ providers, with automatic routing, price comparison, and failover across vendors. It removes the need to maintain separate integrations for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and dozens of others, and now processes around 100 trillion tokens per month for more than 8 million users.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Alex Atallah (Co-founder & CEO), Louis Vichy (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~51 employees
- **Products:** Unified LLM API, Smart Routing & Fallback, Model Marketplace & Rankings, Provider Controls & Data Policies
- **Notable:** Processes roughly 100 trillion tokens per month, Weekly token volume reported at ~25 trillion at Series B, Aggregates 400+ models from 60+ providers behind one API

## Products & services

- **Unified LLM API** — A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that reaches 400+ models from 60+ providers, with unified billing, authentication, and usage tracking.
- **Smart Routing & Fallback** — Automatic routing of each request by cost, latency, and availability, with failover to a secondary model or provider when one is down or rate-limited.
- **Model Marketplace & Rankings** — Discovery, comparison, and ranking of models with real-world usage data, letting teams pick the best price/performance for a task.
- **Provider Controls & Data Policies** — Provider filtering, zero-data-retention options, prompt caching, and request-level data policies for enterprise reliability and privacy.

## Achievements

- Processes roughly 100 trillion tokens per month
- Weekly token volume reported at ~25 trillion at Series B
- Aggregates 400+ models from 60+ providers behind one API
- Reached $1.3B valuation within roughly a year of its first round
- 8M+ users and 1M+ developers

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Raised $113M Series B led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a $1.3B valuation; weekly volume reported around 25 trillion tokens.
- **2025-06** — Announced $40M in combined Seed and Series A funding led by a16z and Menlo Ventures to scale multi-model inference for enterprise.

## Links

- Website: https://openrouter.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openrouter
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/openrouter
- GitHub: https://github.com/OpenRouterTeam
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9dJwjRL5rHn-2t-rHlwNpg

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Last updated: 2026-06-07