OpenRouter - About the company
OpenRouter is a series B 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 $173M in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures and CapitalG, with a current valuation of $1.3B. The company has 80 active competitors, including 14 funded and 1 that has exited. Its top competitors include companies like Fixie.ai, Olas and Super AGI.
Sectors and market segments that OpenRouter operate in
OpenRouter serves in the High Tech, Native AI market segments.The primary business model of OpenRouter are: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
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2023
Location
New York City, United States
Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$173M in 3 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$1.3B as on Apr 03, 2026
Investors
Ranked
1st among 80 active competitors
Employee Count
69 as on May 31, 2026
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OpenRouter's funding and investors
OpenRouter has raised a total funding of $173M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jun 25, 2025. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on May 26, 2026 for $113M. 8 investors participated in its latest round. OpenRouter has 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 26, 2026 | $113M | Series B | - | - | ||
Jun 25, 2025 | $12.5M | Seed | - | - | ||
Jun 25, 2025 | $47.6M | Series A | - | - |
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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 69 employees as of May 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 B | Platform offering access to LLM models | $173M | 68/100 | |
2nd | Fixie.ai 2022, Seattle (United States), Seed | Developer of voice AI platform providing real-time speech processing capabilities | $17M | 58/100 | |
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 | Luel 2026, San Francisco (United States), Seed | Provider of curated, rights-cleared training data from verified contributors for AI | $31.7M | 50/100 | |
7th | TAUS 2004, De Rijp (Netherlands), Funding Raised | Provider of an online marketplace for AI projects | - | 49/100 | |
8th | ![]() Venice Sheridan (United States), Unfunded | Provider of private artificial intelligence models for text, images, and code | - | - | 43/100 |
9th | WaveSpeed AI 2024, Singapore (Singapore), Seed | Provider of a platform for accelerated AI image and video generation | - | - | 42/100 |
10th | Dedalus Labs 2025, San Francisco (United States), Seed | Developer of a platform for building and deploying multi-tenant agents | $11M | 40/100 |
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OpenRouter's Investments and acquisitions
OpenRouter has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to OpenRouter
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News related to OpenRouter
Media has covered OpenRouter for a total of 6 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about company updates.
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Tensormesh: $20 Million Raised To Scale KV Caching Infrastructure For Enterprise AI InferencePulse 2.0•Jun 30, 2026•Valley Capital Partners, Tensormesh, Laude Ventures, CoreWeave and 4 others
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OpenRouter Launches Fusion, Combining Multiple Affordable Models for Performance Rivaling Fable 5NewMobileLife•Jun 14, 2026•OpenRouter
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OpenRouter Raises $113M in Series B FundingFinSMEs•May 26, 2026•OpenRouter, CapitalG, NVentures, Snowflake and 13 others
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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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