Stripe powers payments for OpenRouter’s AI developer platform

Stripe is powering payments, billing and fraud controls for OpenRouter, an AI developer platform that serves more than five million users and provides access to hundreds of artificial intelligence models.

OpenRouter offers a single interface for developers to connect with dozens of model providers. The company said it uses Stripe Invoicing and Stripe Tax to manage customer billing and tax compliance, and tunes fraud controls through Stripe’s Radar for Fraud Teams.

The platform accepts credit cards as well as local payment methods including Alipay, WeChat Pay, Amazon Pay, Cash App and Google Pay. It uses Stripe’s Adaptive Pricing to display local currency pricing in over 150 countries.

Stripe partnered with OpenRouter to allow developers to route model requests through the platform while Stripe manages usage tracking, pricing application and customer billing.

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“Stripe handles payment complexity in an elegant way so we can focus on making AI models accessible and high-quality for developers everywhere,” said Alex Atallah, co-founder and chief executive of OpenRouter. “As OpenRouter scales globally, having reliable payments infrastructure is essential to delivering the seamless experience our users expect.”

Stripe said it is building the economic infrastructure for AI and partners with artificial intelligence companies on monetisation strategies. The company added that every monetising company on the Forbes AI 50 list uses Stripe.

The Recap

• Stripe will power OpenRouter's payments and fraud protection globally.
• OpenRouter serves over five million developers and hundreds of AI models.
• Stripe will automatically track usage, apply pricing, and bill customers.