OpenRouter 🧩 Products

OpenRouter is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 22 to Sep 22 (peak 26 on Sep 22).

OpenRouter, a single-API gateway to 400+ models (its usage data is a market barometer); being acquired by Stripe (~$7.5B, Aug 2026).

First seen on Hacker News · Sep 16 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

Stage

💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources

Hype score

0.5 / 100 · −12.6 in 1 day · −0.8 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

25.9 on Sep 22, 2026

Category

🧩 Products

Official site

openrouter.ai

Sources above normal

0 of 27 scoring it (0 independent families)

Stories in 7 days

164

Share of voice

0.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

Stories behind it

1. superdesigndev/treg: OpenRouter for agent tools. Join community here: https://discord.gg/6mQYYfFMAn — GitHub Trending (superdesigndev) · score 3,477
2. Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usage — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 23 · score 1,935 · 205 comments
3. OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha — AI newsletters (RSS) (Latent Space) · Sep 25 · score 34 · 6 comments
4. ComfyUI launches OpenRouter for generative media — Hacker News (comfy.org) · Sep 23 · score 15 · 8 comments
5. charlesdove977/claude-x-jev: Fast, cheap, typed decisions for Claude Code. Jev (TypeSafe's decision model on OpenRouter) sorts, checks, scores, gates and verifies at 0.3s and a fraction of a cent per item. Claude keeps the reading, writing and judgment. — GitHub (charlesdove977) · Sep 25 · score 15
6. I have to say, MiMo v2.5 and MiMo v2.5 Pro are pretty decent. These can't beat GLM 5.3 tho. Anyone have these two fighting? #AI #LLM #CodeCommand #Xiaomi #LargeLanguageModels #OpenCode #OpenRouter #M… — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 2 comments
7. Best Move Club: Chess Community Event Series — Luma (SF AI events) (OpenRouter Events) · score 0
8. GPT6-Luna comes out on top in Puppy Kill Bench. — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,693 · 118 comments
9. Jaw literally dropped. I ran the prompt from the "Made entirely with Opus 5.5" post on my own project. Here's what Claude Code made on its own for about $4. — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 24 · score 1,278 · 195 comments
10. Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + OpenRouter API key — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 23 · score 258 · 69 comments
11. TypeSafe’s JEV Model: Is It Really 193x Faster and 444x Cheaper? — DEV Community (dev.to) (#jev) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 1 comment
12. It Looked Finished on Day One — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 2 comments

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 143 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Models — 50% of its stories
• Agents — 43% of its stories
• Usage & adoption — 36% of its stories
• Protocols & infra — 32% of its stories
• Companies & business — 7.7% of its stories
• Security & safety — 2.8% of its stories

Related topics

Related to

LMArena, Open-weight models, Vercel AI SDK

Mentioned with

Claude (94 stories), DeepSeek (50 stories), Jev (49 stories), Claude Code (49 stories), OpenCode (27 stories), GLM (23 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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