Neither side is disclosing the price officially, but according to a report by the “New York Times” it stands at $7. The transaction is still subject to customary closing conditions, and OpenRouter expects it to close “in the coming weeks”. What OpenRouter does Founded in early 2023, OpenRouter operates a kind of intermediary layer between developers and the growing number of AI models. Instead of integrating the individual interfaces of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta or Chinese providers separately, customers access more than 400 models from over 80 providers through a single API. For each request, the system decides which model to use, factoring in task complexity, price, speed and availability.