First Stripe, now Ramp joins the AI model routing business

Ramp, the finance and expenses management platform valued at $44 billion, launched router.com on Wednesday, a tool for selecting and switching between AI models, with routing free for the rest of 2026. The release came the same day Stripe reportedly paid $7.5 billion for OpenRouter. Head of Applied AI Veeral Patel said the tool sends each request to the model best suited for the task, helping control token purchases.

AI /tag/ai/ On the same day Stripe dropped a reported $7.5 billion on OpenRouter, another fintech company, Ramp, also made its play for the AI model switching market and launched router.com. The finance and expenses management platform, valued at $44 billion, publicly released https://ramp.com/blog/router-launch/?ref=thestack.technology the tool for quickly picking AI models and switching between them on Wednesday, after building it internally for three years. Head of Applied AI Veeral Patel said: “Every week, the price-intelligence-latency frontier shifts, and we expect this trend to continue… Router sends every request to the model that's actually best for the task and helps you control what tokens you buy.” The tool was first teased last month, but the API key is now available through router.com http://router.com/?ref=thestack.technology . Routing will be free for the rest of 2026, but Ramp is yet to provide a cost structure for the service following this offer. Finance and AI Get the full story: Subscribe for free Join peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events. Subscribe now https://www.thestack.technology/membership/ Already a member? Sign in https://www.thestack.technology/signin/