OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
OpenRouter 估值一年内翻倍，达到 13 亿美元
Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. 成立于 2023 年的知名 AI 网关制造商 OpenRouter 近日完成了 1.13 亿美元的 B 轮融资，由谷歌母公司 Alphabet 旗下的成长型风险投资基金 CapitalG 领投。
While the startup didn’t disclose its new valuation, The New York Times reports that it landed at about $1.3 billion post-money. This is a hefty increase from the estimated $547 million post-money valuation it hit a year ago, per PitchBook, after raising $40 million in Series A funding in June 2025. That round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Sequoia. 虽然这家初创公司并未披露其最新估值，但据《纽约时报》报道，其投后估值已达到约 13 亿美元。根据 PitchBook 的数据，这较其一年前（2025 年 6 月）完成 4000 万美元 A 轮融资时约 5.47 亿美元的投后估值有了大幅增长。该轮融资由 Andreessen Horowitz 和 Menlo Ventures 领投，红杉资本（Sequoia）参投。
What a difference a year makes. Since then, AI work has shifted from training to inference to, now, agents. And OpenRouter’s AI gateway has soared in popularity in response. The gateway helps enterprises and other AI users select different models for different jobs to control costs or increase reasoning and accuracy for the task at hand. 一年时间，变化巨大。自那时起，AI 领域的工作重心已从模型训练转向推理，如今又转向了智能体（Agents）。作为回应，OpenRouter 的 AI 网关人气飙升。该网关旨在帮助企业和其他 AI 用户针对不同任务选择合适的模型，从而控制成本或提升当前任务的推理能力与准确性。
OpenRouter provides access to over 400 models, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, and DeepSeek, it says. It claims 8 million global users and 100 trillion tokens processed per month, or about 25 trillion per week. That’s a 5x increase from the 5 trillion tokens it was processing per week just six months ago. 据称，OpenRouter 提供对超过 400 种模型的访问权限，包括 Anthropic、Google、OpenAI、xAI 和 DeepSeek 等。该公司声称拥有 800 万全球用户，每月处理 100 万亿个 Token，即每周约 25 万亿个。这比六个月前每周处理 5 万亿个 Token 的数据增长了 5 倍。
OpenRouter’s success means that the AI model is increasingly becoming an invisible, swappable engine for AI tasks. Rather than a future where startups or enterprises standardize on a model of choice — perhaps creating a single all-powerful model maker in the process — the growth of OpenRouter indicates something else. Companies have no plans to get locked into a model vendor as they did with their various SaaS providers. The multi-model future is already here. OpenRouter 的成功意味着 AI 模型正日益成为 AI 任务中一种隐形且可替换的引擎。OpenRouter 的增长表明，未来并非初创公司或企业会统一选择某一种模型（这可能会在此过程中造就一家全能的模型巨头），而是呈现出另一种趋势：企业并不打算像对待各种 SaaS 提供商那样，被锁定在某一家模型供应商身上。多模型并存的未来已经到来。