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Stripe just bought the toll booth — the $7B+ OpenRouter deal, 5.4x the May Series B mark in 82 days, hands the payments company the router taking a 5% cut of every token flowing across 400 models to eight million developers
On August 16, Bloomberg reported Stripe finalised a $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter — 5.4x its May Series B, 82 days later. Stripe now owns the router taking 5% of every inference dollar flowing to 400 models across 8M developers.
Aug 17, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Aug 17, 2026