According to Bloomberg , payment services provider Stripe is set to acquire AI multi-provider OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars. OpenRouter is a US startup whose routing layer enables companies to switch between different AI models, optimizing cost, latency, and quality. OpenRouter Valuation Could Multiply Several Times Over The deal could mark a strategic move into AI infrastructure for Stripe and illustrate how quickly the market is shifting from individual models toward operational and cost management. With this move, Stripe is responding to the growing demand from companies to run AI queries cost-efficiently without permanently locking into a single provider. The valuation would significantly exceed OpenRouter’s most recent funding round from last May, in which the young company was valued at around $1.