OpenRouter - About the company
OpenRouter is a series A company based in New York City (United States), founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah. It operates as a Platform offering access to LLM models. OpenRouter has raised $60.1M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, with a current valuation of $*****. The company has 99 active competitors, including 14 funded and 1 that has exited. Its top competitors include companies like Fixie.ai, Olas and Super AGI.
Company Details
Platform offering access to LLM models. It offers access to solutions including GPT-4 32K and Google PaLM, for developers to use in their AI models. The platform offers API keys for authentication and allows for batch calling of Chat Completion.
- Website
- openrouter.ai
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Founded Year
2023
Location
New York City, United States
Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$60.1M in 2 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$***** as on Apr 03, 2026
Investors
Ranked
1st among 99 active competitors
Employee Count
51 as on Mar 31, 2026
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OpenRouter's funding and investors
OpenRouter has raised a total funding of $60.1M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jun 25, 2025. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Jun 25, 2025 for $*****. 2 investors participated in its latest round. OpenRouter has 5 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of OpenRouter:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 25, 2025 | 7415836 | Series A | 4053989 | 2623418 | 1032932 | 7229769 |
Jun 25, 2025 | 9879457 | Seed | 1178209 | 3058797 |
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OpenRouter's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of OpenRouter is Alex Atallah. Alex Atallah is the CEO of OpenRouter.
Here are the details of OpenRouter's key team members:
- Alex Atallah: Co-Founder & CEO of OpenRouter. Contact Info: 1 email address
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OpenRouter's employee count trend
OpenRouter has 51 employees as of Mar 26. Here is OpenRouter's employee count trend over the years:
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OpenRouter's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of OpenRouter include Fixie.ai, Olas and Super AGI. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of OpenRouter, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | OpenRouter 2023, New York City (United States), Series A | Platform offering access to LLM models | $60.1M | 65/100 | |
2nd | Fixie.ai 2022, Seattle (United States), Seed | Developer of voice AI platform providing real-time speech processing capabilities | $17M | 57/100 | |
3rd | Olas 2022, Einsiedeln (Switzerland), Series A | Operator of a network for co-owning and monetizing AI agents | $13.8M | 56/100 | |
4th | Super AGI 2020, Palo Alto (United States), Series A | Provider of an AI-native platform with applications and agents for business | $15M | 56/100 | |
5th | SingularityNET 2017, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Series A | Online platform offering decentralized AI services and marketplace | $1.64M | 54/100 | |
6th | TAUS 2004, De Rijp (Netherlands), Funding Raised | Provider of an online marketplace for AI projects | - | 49/100 | |
7th | ![]() Venice Sheridan (United States), Unfunded | Provider of private artificial intelligence models for text, images, and code | - | - | 43/100 |
8th | Dedalus Labs 2025, San Francisco (United States), Seed | Developer of a platform for building and deploying multi-tenant agents | $11M | 40/100 | |
9th | LaunchLemonade 2024, London (United Kingdom), Seed | No-code platform to create, deploy, and monetize AI-powered tools and agents | $480K | 35/100 | |
10th | GenesisAI 2018, Boston (United States), Seed | Provider of a marketplace for AI services | - | 35/100 |
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OpenRouter's Investments and acquisitions
OpenRouter has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
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News related to OpenRouter
Media has covered OpenRouter for a total of 3 events in the last 1 year.
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Alphabet Fund in Talks to Lead OpenRouter Investment at $1.3 Billion ValuationThe Information•Apr 02, 2026•OpenRouter, Alphabet
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OpenRouter Secures $40 Million to Streamline AI Model Management for DevelopersHelp Net Security•Jun 25, 2025•OpenRouter
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Web3 AI Cloud Startup Hyperbolic Raises $12 Million in Investmentcoinreaders.com•Dec 10, 2024•Hyperbolic, Polychain, Variant Fund, Chapter One and 19 others
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