OpenRouter

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OpenRouter is tracked in TLDRocket’s company dataset. Explore the recorded developments, relationships and supporting evidence below. Coverage reflects our monitored sources and may be incomplete.

Updated 24 October 2026

Signals

5 stories (-44%)

Media momentum

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.

18 sources

Source diversity

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.

4 events

Release activity

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

4 events

Funding signals

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

May 2026 → Oct 2026

Coverage span

As of 2 Nov 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.

Funding history

$8 billion Acquisition confirmed 19 Aug 2026 coverage →

Stripe
$7.5 billion Acquisition confirmed 17 Aug 2026 coverage →

Stripe

Management records

updated 2 Nov 2026

Observed in public listings; this is not a verified current management roster.

Alex Atallah Ceo, Co-founder
jacqueline gantt Director of Enterprise Sales
Julian Thayn Founding Product Designer | Head of Design
Chris Clark Chief Operating Officer

View 12-month management history

Recent source observations

5 Aug Unverified observation Chris Clark Observed in a source listing as Chief Operating Officer; start date unknown.
5 Aug Unverified observation Julian Thayn Observed in a source listing as Founding Product Designer | Head of Design; start date unknown.
5 Aug Unverified observation jacqueline gantt Observed in a source listing as Director of Enterprise Sales; start date unknown.

Latest developments

Market development: Bifrost & Portkey MarkTechPost · 2 weeks ago · 0 Model release: Nace.AI & Drex 1.5 MarkTechPost · 3 weeks ago · 2 Market development: Seismora & OpenRouter SiliconANGLE · 3 weeks ago · 0 Market development: Percona & Vercel The New Stack · 3 weeks ago · 1 Product launch: OpenAI & Anthropic Product Hunt · 4 weeks ago · 0 Market development: Inferock-bench & OpenAI Product Hunt · 1 month ago · 0 Market development: OpenRouter & Stripe Latent Space · 1 month ago · 4 Market development: OpenRouter & OpenAI OpenRouter Blog · 1 month ago · 6

Timeline

Month Quarter Year

2026

Model release: Decision 3.0 & Drex 1.5 Model release

Product launch: Reviu & Anthropic Product launch

Deployment: Anthropic & OpenRouter Deployment

Open source release: Ox Alpha & Z.ai Open source release

Model release: Ox Alpha & OpenAI Model release

Policy change: Anthropic & OpenAI Policy change

Acquisition: OpenRouter & Ramp Acquisition

Acquisition: OpenRouter & Stripe Acquisition

Acquisition: OpenRouter & Stripe Acquisition

Acquisition: OpenRouter & Stripe Acquisition

Model release: DeepSeek & DeepSeek V4-Flash Model release

Policy change: ActID & DeepSeek Policy change

Model release: Anthropic & Claude 5 Model release

Open source release: AMD & Alibaba Open source release

Open source release: Hy3 & Tencent Open source release

14 Oct Market development: Bifrost & Portkey
10 Oct Model release: Nace.AI & Drex 1.5
9 Oct Market development: Seismora & OpenRouter
9 Oct Market development: Percona & Vercel
5 Oct Product launch: OpenAI & Anthropic
29 Sep Market development: Inferock-bench & OpenAI
25 Sep Market development: OpenRouter & Stripe
23 Sep Market development: OpenRouter & OpenAI
19 Sep Deployment: Zed & Anthropic
14 Sep Market development: OpenRouter & The New Stack
11 Sep Market development: OpenRouter
11 Sep Market development: Stripe & OpenRouter
10 Sep Market development: Cadenya & OpenRouter
6 Sep Market development: GoModel & OpenAI
2 Sep Market development: Stripe & Privy
26 Aug Open source release: Z.ai & OpenRouter
23 Aug Model release: OpenRouter & Ox Alpha
23 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
21 Aug Market development: llm-openrouter & OpenRouter
21 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
21 Aug Policy change: OpenAI & Anthropic
20 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
19 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
19 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
19 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
19 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
17 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
17 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
17 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
17 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
16 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
16 Aug Acquisition: Stripe & OpenRouter
12 Aug Market development: DeepSeek & OpenRouter
11 Aug Market development: OpenRouter
31 Jul Model release: DeepSeek & DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
30 Jul Market development: Nous Research & Hermes Agent
27 Jul Open source release: Moonshot AI & Kimi K3
24 Jul Model release: Sakana AI & Fugu-Ultra v1.1
24 Jul Market development: Stripe & OpenRouter
24 Jul Policy change: ByteDance & OpenRouter
23 Jul Market development: OpenAI & Anthropic
9 Jul Market development: Autopilot-Jobhunt & TinyFish
7 Jul Open source release: Tencent & Hy3
6 Jul Open source release: Tencent & Hy3
29 May Market development: OpenAI & Google
26 May Market development: OpenRouter & Google

Relationships

Investment & ownership

Stripe acquired this company · 18 sources
Stripe invests in this company · 4 sources
Acquired Stripe · 1 source

Products & technology

Stripe integrated with this company · 2 sources
Deploys Kimi K3 · 1 source
Deploys DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 · 1 source
Deploys US in-region routing · 1 source
Integrated with Ox Alpha · 1 source
Develops Batch API · 1 source
Derived from Stripe for AI · 1 source

Partnerships

Partnered with OpenAI · 1 source

People

Employed by Alex Atallah · 1 source