--- title: "OpenRouter — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # OpenRouter (🧩 Products) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › OpenRouter 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](https://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. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 3 (Sep 26) | 1 | 2× | no | 100% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 6.8 (Sep 25) | 6.8 | 1× | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [superdesigndev/treg: OpenRouter for agent tools. Join community here: https://discord.gg/6mQYYfFMAn](https://github.com/superdesigndev/treg) — GitHub Trending (superdesigndev) · score 3,477 2. [Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usage](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wogab3/) — 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](https://www.latent.space/p/openrouter) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Latent Space) · Sep 25 · score 34 · 6 comments 4. [ComfyUI launches OpenRouter for generative media](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818285) — 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.](https://github.com/charlesdove977/claude-x-jev) — 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…](https://mastodon.social/@darkghosthunter/117311980595352449) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 2 comments 7. [Best Move Club: Chess Community Event Series](https://luma.com/r61stqxc) — Luma (SF AI events) (OpenRouter Events) · score 0 8. [GPT6-Luna comes out on top in Puppy Kill Bench.](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wr8r6g/) — 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.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wovwao/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 24 · score 1,278 · 195 comments 10. [Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + OpenRouter API key](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1woe7xf/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 23 · score 258 · 69 comments 11. [TypeSafe’s JEV Model: Is It Really 193x Faster and 444x Cheaper?](https://dev.to/arifulislamat/typesafes-jev-model-is-it-really-193x-faster-and-444x-cheaper-56oa) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#jev) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 1 comment 12. [It Looked Finished on Day One](https://dev.to/henry_dan_81513dd35a2f540/it-looked-finished-on-day-one-4k0j) — 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 50% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 43% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 36% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 32% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 7.7% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 2.8% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md), [Vercel AI SDK](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vercel_ai_sdk.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (94 stories), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md) (50 stories), [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) (49 stories), [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) (49 stories), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) (27 stories), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md) (23 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 13.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 17.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 24, 2026 | 23.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 23, 2026 | 17.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 22, 2026 | 25.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 10.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 12.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 15.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 14.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 20.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 8.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 4.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 11.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 16.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 5.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 3.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 11.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 5.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 14.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open OpenRouter in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=openrouter) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)