Verified claim · AI-ML · 100% confidence
OpenRouter founded in: 2023 by Alex Atallah — unified API gateway routing requests across 100+ LLM providers.
Last verified 2026-05-16 · Methodology veritas-v0.1 · ab7b60b98d515ddc
Structured fields
- Subject
- OpenRouter
- Predicate
founded_in- Object
- 2023 by Alex Atallah — unified API gateway routing requests across 100+ LLM providers
- Confidence
- 100%
- Tags
- openrouter · atallah · llm-gateway · multi-provider · company-history · founded_in · 2023
Sources (2)
[1] docs · OpenRouter · 2023-05-01
About OpenRouter“OpenRouter was founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah as a unified API gateway that routes requests across 100+ LLM providers with a single API key.”
[2] docs · OpenRouter · 2023-05-01
OpenRouter documentation
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# "OpenRouter founded in: 2023 by Alex Atallah — unified API gateway routing requests across 100+ LLM providers."LangChain (retrieve-then-cite)
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@tool
def get_openrouter_fact() -> dict:
"""Fetch the verified SourceScore claim for OpenRouter."""
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return r.json()