Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Company expense administration platform Ramp is scorching on the heels of Stripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference.

Ramp on Wednesday night launched its personal AI mannequin routing service, dubbed Router, that lets customers and corporations use and swap between numerous giant language fashions by an API. The corporate says it has been utilizing the router it constructed for its personal AI utilization wants over the previous three years.

The service is barely obtainable in america for now. It’s free to make use of for the rest of 2026 (customers will nonetheless need to pay for AI mannequin inference prices), and it comes with a $26 credit score launch supply. The corporate didn’t say how a lot the service will value subsequent 12 months.

Router features equally to OpenRouter, although the latter presents many extra AI mannequin choices than Ramp’s present choices.

Router presents entry to fashions from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI, and Z.ai. It additionally supplies a number of “methods” to assist its clients route AI requests to fashions primarily based on their preferences. For instance, one lets customers set a desire for mannequin suppliers’ flex utilization tiers, whereas one other lets Router select which mannequin to route queries to primarily based on as much as three user-specified benchmarks. Customers may also select to route solely tough issues to costly fashions or check fashions simply with out having to modify.

Customers get a dashboard, too, that lets them see token spend, value, latency, fallback makes an attempt, and different particulars.

Notably, Router has an opt-out information retention coverage: It is going to report mannequin inputs, outputs, and gear requires one 12 months by default, although the corporate says it should take away “personally identifiable info earlier than utilizing that content material to enhance the product.”

For Ramp, getting into the mannequin routing enterprise presents a two-pronged alternative: It will get to faucet the booming AI inference market and supply its present shoppers a mannequin routing service that matches in neatly with its present merchandise, which incorporates AI token utilization monitoring and token spend administration.

And, if Router proves as enticing of a mannequin testing area as OpenRouter has, Ramp can also be capable to construct long-standing relationships with AI labs and inference suppliers worldwide. That would assist Ramp, which raised $750 million at a $44 billion valuation in June, acquire new clients and a brand new level of entry for promoting its expense administration merchandise.