Ramp Launches Router AI Service With $26 Credit as It Chases Inference Market
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Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 20
Ramp Launches Router AI Service With $26 Credit as It Chases Inference Market
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 20
Summary
Ramp on Wednesday rolled out Router, a U.S.-only API service that lets companies switch among large language models and route requests by cost, benchmarks or task difficulty.
The launch extends tooling Ramp says it has used internally for three years, adding a dashboard for token spend, latency and fallback attempts while linking to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and others.
Router is free through the rest of 2026 excluding inference charges, and Ramp is offering a $26 launch credit; it has not disclosed 2027 pricing.
Ramp will retain model inputs, outputs and tool calls for one year by default unless users opt out, saying it strips personally identifiable information before using content to improve the product.
The move gives Ramp a new way to tap AI inference demand and cross-sell customers after its $750 million June raise at a $44 billion valuation.