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Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter as it reports 10 trillion tokens a day News
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, whose official announcement says its routing platform processes more than 10 trillion AI tokens daily across 400-plus models.
A free million-token model appeared with no owner and two conflicting privacy policies News
Ox Alpha, a free anonymous model on OpenRouter with a 1,048,576-token context window, is described as zero-retention in one set of documentation and as retaining prompts and completions in another, while an independent token-level analysis points to Zhipu's GLM line as the likely provider.
Stripe is buying the company that keeps score on every model News
Stripe announced on August 19 that it has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the gateway that routes developer traffic across more than 400 models from over 80 providers and publishes the industry's most-watched model usage rankings.
OpenRouter now picks your model by what everyone else is paying for News
OpenRouter rebuilt its automatic model router around aggregate spending data from the past seven days, replacing hand-tuned rules with a crowd signal drawn from more than 55 trillion tokens a week.
Chinese models passed American ones in OpenRouter traffic in June News
OpenRouter's own analysis dates the crossover where Chinese models overtook American ones in token share to early June 2026, driven by DeepSeek V4 Flash taking 70 percent of DeepSeek's agentic traffic.
Ox Alpha on OpenRouter Tool
A free anonymous stealth model with a 1,048,576-token context window, up to 131,072 output tokens, and text, image, and video input. Genuinely usable and genuinely free right now, with a caveat worth reading first: OpenRouter states it is not the developer or provider, its model page says prompts and completions are retained by the anonymous provider, and other documentation for the same model claims zero retention.