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OpenRouter valuation, funding and revenue

OpenRouter sells a single API and routing layer that lets developers and enterprises use more than 400 AI models from many providers with unified billing, failover and privacy controls.

Figures checked September 2026. Each one links to its source.

Latest valuation

$1.3B

May 2026, according to press reports. techcrunch.com

Total funding

$113M+

Latest round only; no public total found.

Revenue

Not disclosed

Website visits

22M

Estimated, August 2026. +15% on the month before.

What is OpenRouter's valuation?

OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May 2026, according to press reports (techcrunch.com). A private company's valuation is set when it raises money, so it can be well out of date between rounds.

That puts OpenRouter at number 46 of the 51 AI unicorns we profile, ranked by valuation.

How much funding has OpenRouter raised?

No public source states OpenRouter's total funding. The rounds below are the ones we could confirm; there may be others. The latest round was a $113M Series B in May 2026, led by CapitalG, according to press reports.

Date	Round	Amount	Led by	Valuation	Source
May 2026	Series B	$113M	CapitalG	$1.3B	techcrunch.com (reported)
June 2025	Seed and Series A (combined)	$40M	Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures	–	globenewswire.com

What is OpenRouter's revenue?

OpenRouter has not published revenue or ARR, and we found no reliable press report of it.

ARR (annual recurring revenue) is the yearly value of current subscriptions; annualized revenue scales a recent month or quarter up to a year. Neither is audited revenue. See what ARR is.

OpenRouter website traffic

Estimated monthly visits to openrouter.ai across all channels, rounded. +31% over three months to August 2026.

May 202617M
June 202617M
July 202619M
August 202622M

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About OpenRouter

OpenRouter sells a single API and routing layer that lets developers and enterprises use more than 400 AI models from many providers with unified billing, failover and privacy controls. globenewswire.com
Founded in 2023. globenewswire.com
Founders: Alex Atallah, Louis Vichy. globenewswire.com
TechCrunch reporting on the reported acquisition price and founder payout (NYT: $7.5 billion, $1.5 billion to founders). techcrunch.com
The May 2026 Series B (led by CapitalG) was announced by OpenRouter without a valuation; the $1.3 billion post-money figure comes from The New York Times via TechCrunch. openrouter.ai
OpenRouter's June 2025 release said annual run-rate inference spending on the platform grew from $10 million (October 2024) to over $100 million (May 2025). This is customer spend routed through OpenRouter, not OpenRouter's own revenue, so it is not listed as revenue. globenewswire.com
Unverified: The Information (29 July 2026) reportedly put OpenRouter's annualized revenue at about $140 million; the figure was seen only in PYMNTS's summary because The Information article is paywalled, so it is not listed as revenue. pymnts.com

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Sources

Checked on 29 September 2026. Traffic figures are third-party estimates, not company-reported numbers.