help companies manage both sides of profitability in the AI era: maximizing revenue and efficacy while minimizing costs. Stripe said it will acquire OpenRouter in a move that looks to combine financial services and payments with model routing and token usage. In a statement , Stripe said it has added tools such as Token Billing to its portfolio of economic infrastructure. The company is best known for its payment processing, authorization and fraud services. The rough idea for Stripe is to wrap AI optimization into its broader portfolio of cost management tools.