OpenRouter
OpenRouter appears in 188 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not OpenRouter's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of OpenRouter is steady — it appears in 188 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What OpenRouter coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 141 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
188 articles mention OpenRouter across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 114 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- benchmark An OpenRouter chart showed agents at 7.3 trillion tokens versus humans’ 1.4 trillion as of August.
- ma Stripe acquired OpenRouter for $7.5 billion.
6 posts on company and project channels mention OpenRouter across the full 15-month record. They come from any company or project channel Compass reads, not only OpenRouter's own. They are counted separately from the 188 press articles.
Where they were published:NVIDIA Blog · 4Cloud Blog · 1Elastic Blog · 1
Press coverage and company and project posts are two separate counts. Every press figure on this page, including the monthly line and the rising or falling call, comes from the independent press only. Before October 2026, Compass counted these posts as press coverage. How this is measured.
- Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats UpCrunchbase News
- AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x Tom's Hardware
- Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgsThe Register
As of 7 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 356,656 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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