Market landscapes / Model Serving & Compute / Model Gateways & Routing
OpenRouter
Unified API gateway for AI models across multiple providers. OpenRouter lets developers access 500+ models from 80+ providers through a single interface, with features for cost optimisation, reliability and data policy control.
Model Gateways & Routing51-200 peopleopenrouter.ai ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From OpenRouter's own jobs board, checked every week.
Hiring sales leadership. A director, revenue operations is on the list, which usually means the sales team is about to grow underneath it.
17 of its 28 open roles are in sales, solutions and marketing.
It has 28 open roles, up from 11 in mid-July.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
OpenRouter has more open roles than any other company in Model Gateways & Routing. 9 of the 18 active companies in this sub-sector are advertising roles.
Funding
OpenRouter announced a $113 million Series B in May 2026, led by CapitalG.
Source: OpenRouter's announcement
Who OpenRouter competes with
The other active companies we file under Model Gateways & Routing, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
One layer in front of many models, handling routing, fallback, cost control and rate limits.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how OpenRouter's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
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