OpenRouter Now Processes More Than a Quadrillion Tokens a Year
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OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, raised $113M in Series B funding at a $1.3B valuation after growing to 8M developers. The company now processes approximately 1.5 quadrillion tokens annually, representing 15-30% of Google's token run rate and 20-40% of OpenAI's run rate. OpenRouter enables developers and enterprises to access 400+ AI models through a single interface with unified billing, improved reliability, and cost optimization features.
Why it matters
AI is becoming a multi-model world, and OpenRouter is the core infrastructure that allows you to leverage that, whether it’s a developer’s $5 side project or a trillion-dollar business. To quote Andrej Karpathy, OpenRouter is quickly becoming the de facto “transfer switch” of AI today. When we announced our $40M investment in OpenRouter almost exactly […] The post OpenRouter Now Processes More Than a Quadrillion Tokens a Year appeared first on Menlo Ventures.