{
  "id": 2184123,
  "title": "Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-router-an-ai-model-routing-service-it-has-been-using",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T17:10:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-called-router/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ramp has launched Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally for three years, in the US. The service allows users to access and switch between various large language models through an API. According to TechCrunch, Router offers access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI, and Z.ai.\n\nThe service is free to use for the remainder of 2026, although users will still have to pay for AI model inference costs. A $26 credit launch offer is also available. TechCrunch reports that Ramp did not disclose the cost of the service for 2027.\n\nRouter provides several \"strategies\" to help customers route AI requests to models based on their preferences. These include setting a preference for model providers' flex usage tiers and choosing which model to route queries to based on up to three user-specified benchmarks. Users also have access to a dashboard to manage their usage.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-called-router",
        "published": "2026-08-20T16:46:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}