Payments News/Stripe News Maria NikolovaAugust 20, 2026 Programmable financial services company Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway and routing platform. OpenRouter helps businesses route and optimize token usage across more than 400 models from more than 80 providers. Stripe provides economic infrastructure for the world’s fastest-growing businesses, including the vast majority of companies developing and building with AI. Stripe already helps businesses maximize their revenue by optimizing across a complex set of variables like payment methods, authorization rates, and fraud. Since last year, Stripe has also worked to help companies optimize their token costs and route tokens efficiently, launching products like Token Billing.