AIBRIEF
Ramp's Router routes prompts across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and others through one US only API and is free through 2026, though its default policy logs inputs and outputs for a year.
Ramp, the corporate expense platform, opened Router on Wednesday as a single API for routing prompts across AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI, and Z.ai. Eight providers land on day one, a narrower catalog than OpenRouter's wider model set.
The product is plumbing. Customers point one endpoint at a query and Router decides which model answers, with knobs for benchmark-driven selection, hard-routing of hard queries to expensive models, and a dashboard that surfaces token spend, cost, latency, and fallback attempts. The service is free through the end of 2026 with a $26 launch credit; pricing for 2027 is undisclosed. It is US-only at launch.
The data policy is the launch's non-obvious beat. By default, Router retains model inputs, outputs, and tool calls for one year, with an opt-out. Ramp says it strips personally identifiable information before using that content to improve the product.
Ramp's $750M June raise at a $44B valuation gives the company room to push into inference, and Ramp already sells token-spend monitoring to its installed base. The launch lands weeks after Stripe set up its own AI-inference layer. What remains unknown: whether non-US customers and a 2027 price list arrive before the free window closes.