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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
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Corporate expense platform Ramp has launched 'Router,' an AI model routing service that allows users to switch between various large language models via API. The service is currently available in the U.S. and provides tools for cost management and model performance optimization.

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As businesses increasingly adopt AI, model routers are becoming essential infrastructure for managing costs, latency, and performance across different AI providers.

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Corporate expense management platform Ramp is hot on the heels of Stripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference .

Ramp on Wednesday evening launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router , that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models through an API. The company says it has been using the router it built for its own AI usage needs over the past three years.

The service is only available in the United States. It’s free to use for the remainder of 2026 (users will still have to pay for AI model inference costs), and it comes with a $26 credit launch offer. The company did not say how much the service will cost next year.

In its function, Router is pretty similar to how OpenRouter operates, though the latter offers many more AI model options than Ramp’s current offerings.

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