alt Hacker Newscurious as a non-user, but what does openrouter have to do with stripe? Ignoring the corpo-speak about mission statement.. the missions don't really seem aligned in reality.
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tyre • yesterday at 10:36 PM
I wrote a substantial comment about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324405
abigdog • yesterday at 10:30 PM
My guess: your LLM agent makes buying decisions for you. Providers of agents can integrate witg stripe. Those using openrouter click a button for micropayment support.
I don't think they have much to do with stripe. I'm guessing they want to round out their business more and include payments for AI since OpenRouter is basically just an AI traffic router that takes your money and provides it to the APIs you use.