~5% routing fee
Stripe rail take
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Two stacked tolls on one agent transaction
A single animated transaction enters OpenRouter, is routed to a model, pays a ~5% platform fee, then its money settles on Stripe's rail — two tolls on the same dollar under one owner.
Agent or developer
one API call
OpenRouter — routing toll
one endpoint · 300+ models · 60+ providers
same company
Stripe — settlement rail
the money side · full payment volume
single endpoint
routes the call
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google
Meta
xAI
Mistral
providers paid
5%
~5% fee
on inference spend
full payment settles
take · undisclosed
one owner
Stripe
same dollar, two takes
~5% on model spend · rail on full volume