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Stripe just paid over $7 billion for a company doing an estimated $50 million a year in revenue. A 140x multiple sounds insane until you look at how OpenRouter actually makes money. It passes model prices through untouched and earns a 5.5% fee when customers load credits to spend on inference. Stripe's own core product charges 2.9% plus 30 cents to move money. OpenRouter collects nearly double Stripe's rate on every dollar flowing to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 400+ other models. Stripe…