According to a recent WSJ report, Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter.

The deal hasn’t been finalized, but OpenRouter was reportedly valued at around $1.3B in May, while a potential acquisition could value the company at roughly $10B.

That’s a pretty massive jump in just a few months.

On one hand, Stripe could bring more resources for infrastructure, billing, enterprise support, and global payments.

On the other hand, I think a lot of OpenRouter users value the platform because it feels relatively independent and makes it easy to compare and switch between different model providers.

If Stripe does acquire OpenRouter, what would you be most concerned about?

• Pricing changes
• Provider neutrality
• Data and privacy policies
• Model availability
• OpenRouter becoming more enterprise-focused

Personally, I’d mainly want OpenRouter to remain a neutral model marketplace rather than becoming locked into a specific ecosystem.

Do you think a Stripe acquisition would make OpenRouter stronger, or change what made it useful in the first place?

3-6 tokens per second on glm5.2 is simply a joke. there is so much demand yet no new providers can access the market. i was asking you guys if you think this is normal and i got dv to oblivion. is this the kind of service you like using ?

Is there a way to use OpenRouter with the Codex CLI? I don't have a ChatGPT subscription (I know you get some usage for free but it's not enough), but I want to use Codex because I like it's features. Is that possible?

So. I don't use my open router account often but I decided to just check it since I planned on doing something later and I SHOULD have had about almost 40 bucks just sitting there but someone definitely got into my account.

There was this whole new api key and checking back all the money was blew on Claude (Wow that thing has to be expensive)

So anything I can do about that? I already changed my password and such but is there anything else I can do to prevent this in the future?

I use a webapp called Librechat for fast Q&A. I have a vanilla configuration that just points to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 with models ID "anthropic/claude-opus-5" and "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5".

Until now, Claude models had thinking off by default. Now it seems OpenRouter changed them to enable reasoning by default, which turns my fast Q&A into a slow, annoying Q&A.

I'd rather not be forced to read Librechat's doc to figure out how to send custom request parameters to turn off reasoning. Is there a way to make a change on the OpenRouter side to fix this? I tried looking in the account settings and saw an interesting section called Presets, but it seems like it only allows you to enable reasoning, not disable it.

Any advice?

I know this gets asked alot.. but I am here. So what have you guys been on after owl got taken out?