Leading global payments and financial infrastructure company expanding into AI economic infrastructure and token routing.
Stripe has officially acquired OpenRouter, the AI model routing platform used by over 10 million developers and companies. OpenRouter will retain its neutrality on models and providers while leveraging Stripe's infrastructure to accelerate building a cross-model, cross-provider AI operating and cost-control layer, marking Stripe's formal entry into AI economic infrastructure.
Stripe built Kai, a company-wide productivity agent, in one week on LangChain/LangGraph and the open-source Deep Agents harness, serving as the core of its Knowledge AI Platform. The case shows that the real bottleneck for in-house agent orchestration is not internal infrastructure integration but building a reliable production-grade agent harness.