Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Corporate disbursal absorption level Ramp is blistery connected the heels of Stripe successful mounting up toll houses for AI inference.

Ramp connected Wednesday evening launched its ain AI exemplary routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies usage and power betwixt assorted ample connection models done an API. The institution says it has been utilizing the router it built for its ain AI usage needs implicit the past 3 years.

The work is lone disposable successful the United States. It’s escaped to usage for the remainder of 2026 (users volition inactive person to wage for AI exemplary inference costs), and it comes with a $26 recognition motorboat offer. The institution did not accidental however overmuch the work volition outgo adjacent year.

In its function, Router is beauteous akin to however OpenRouter operates, though the second offers galore much AI exemplary options than Ramp’s existent offerings.

Router offers entree to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI, and Z.ai. It besides provides respective “strategies” to assistance its customers way AI requests to models based connected their preferences. For example, 1 lets users acceptable a penchant for exemplary providers’ flex usage tiers, portion different lets Router take which exemplary to way queries to based connected up to 3 user-specified benchmarks. Users tin besides take to way lone hard problems to costly models oregon trial models easy without having to switch.

Users get a dashboard, too, that lets them spot token spend, cost, latency, fallback attempts, and different details.

Notably, Router has an opt-out information retention policy: it volition grounds exemplary inputs, outputs and instrumentality calls for 1 twelvemonth by default, though the institution says it volition region “personally identifiable accusation earlier utilizing that contented to amended the product.”

For Ramp, entering the exemplary routing concern offers a two-pronged opportunity: it gets to pat the booming AI inference market, and also offer its existing clients a exemplary routing work that fits successful neatly with its existing products, which includes AI token usage monitoring and token walk management.

And, if Router proves arsenic charismatic of a exemplary investigating arena arsenic OpenRouter has, Ramp whitethorn besides beryllium capable to physique long-standing relationships with AI labs and inference providers worldwide. That could assistance Ramp, which raised $750 cardinal astatine a $44 cardinal valuation successful June, summation caller customers and a caller constituent of introduction for selling its disbursal absorption products.