Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports

Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports(finance.yahoo.com)

8 points by nlpnerd 2 hours ago | 3 comments

nlpnerd 2 hours ago |

Like what's the angle here, and what's the outlook for LLM routers like Openrouter to justify a 10B valuation?

Somebody enlighten me.

andsoitis 2 hours ago | |

OpenRouter is a marketplace (“OpenRouter, a fast-growing marketplace that enables developers to route traffic across various artificial intelligence models”).

Market places mean payments. Stripe does payments.

nlpnerd 2 hours ago | | |

That's a good point actually. I just recalled that Openrouter charges a premium of 5.5% on transactions. That's probably comparable or fat relative to the cut for payments processors like Stripe.