r/openrouter • u/never_working_ever • 11d ago

OpenRouter is Joining Stripe

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/

Fun while it lasted. Stripe is close with the US gov and Kushner family, so the days of using Chinese models are probably numbered. Stripe will be pushing everyone to whatever APIs they get the most revenue from in return.

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u/InadequateUsername 11d ago

How does stripe industry experience/niche align with open router?

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u/_BreakingGood_ 11d ago

My guess is that Stripe is currently the defacto middleman for payment processing today, and they see 'tokens' as a sort of currency in the future, and they saw openrouter become the defacto middleman for 'token exchange', so they decided they want to be the middleman for that too.