The domain was previously owned by Innovation HQ (innovationhq.com) who own tens of thousands of domains, some of the best in the world (they sold robot.com not long ago, owns/runs whatismyip.com). Innovation were asking ~$5 million for it earlier this year. Given the huge money flowing into AI router projects, I expect Ramp paid very close to asking, or perhaps a little more. So, $5 million +/- $1 million is my guess. I assume Ramp will announce the price in a few weeks to generate some more press for the project.
The fact that they put "every model" repeatedly, then don't actually support even close to "most mainstream models", makes me highly doubtful their service will be more honest and forthcoming once I'm signed up.
It’s also so strange how they all play the exact same game. Everybody creates pretty much the same products. Every software company will have a chatbot, an agentic harness, a model router, and whatever will be the next trend. It’s not an ecosystem where we see lots of different ideas with some crazy, some failing, some succeeding, it really feels like it’s a single same bet and all SF companies are sort of acting like one homogeneous meta company
Same happened at the start of the cloud era; everyone created a YT competitor, Twitter clones, MySpace clones, a cloud platform to host on (though it was just a wrapper around AWS like wrappers we see around OpenAI [looking at you Heroku])
Big tech emails leaked during a trial over a decade ago; C-level types agreeing they need to not truly compete but see each other as one big company.
Screen based filter bubble living has kept the digital generation ignorant; it's all built on the same physical principles. No point pretending, at their level, they're doing anything truly different
Indeed, probably not cheap. Ironically, they see themselves as the ones that should help others "stop overpaying for things" and "help companies make better spending decisions":
> Wait, Ramp bought router.com? We did. It was either this or spend the next year spelling out a longer URL on podcasts. More importantly, we build tools that help companies make better spending decisions and stop overpaying for things.
Indeed. Also, ramp.com is shorter than router.com, so I don't really understand the "spelling out a longer URL on podcasts". I guess router.com is just clearer for customers?
Thats basically a direct response of OpenRouter by Stripe? ahaha
I just want to know how much the domain cost.
The domain was previously owned by Innovation HQ (innovationhq.com) who own tens of thousands of domains, some of the best in the world (they sold robot.com not long ago, owns/runs whatismyip.com). Innovation were asking ~$5 million for it earlier this year. Given the huge money flowing into AI router projects, I expect Ramp paid very close to asking, or perhaps a little more. So, $5 million +/- $1 million is my guess. I assume Ramp will announce the price in a few weeks to generate some more press for the project.
story here https://domaininvesting.com/ramp-acquired-router-com/
Less than $7B.
and who owned it. Cisco, from the first Internet boom could have wanted that.
The fact that they put "every model" repeatedly, then don't actually support even close to "most mainstream models", makes me highly doubtful their service will be more honest and forthcoming once I'm signed up.
let us know which "mainstream" models you feel like we are missing support for! https://docs.router.com/supported-models
I wouldn't read too much into it, that was probably a big rush job once the Stripe / openrouter news broke.
Why do these Router companies never have BAAs? They can easily get them with the vendors, why not sign with the customer?
It can't be a coincidence that this dropped today, the same day news dropped about the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter
Same day? The acquisition has been public knowledge for at least a week.
I guess this is the world we live in now. All companies no matter which sector they belong to must buy AI crap.
A few years ago, companies buying random companies from a completely different sector was frowned upon by stakeholders
It’s also so strange how they all play the exact same game. Everybody creates pretty much the same products. Every software company will have a chatbot, an agentic harness, a model router, and whatever will be the next trend. It’s not an ecosystem where we see lots of different ideas with some crazy, some failing, some succeeding, it really feels like it’s a single same bet and all SF companies are sort of acting like one homogeneous meta company
Same happened at the start of the cloud era; everyone created a YT competitor, Twitter clones, MySpace clones, a cloud platform to host on (though it was just a wrapper around AWS like wrappers we see around OpenAI [looking at you Heroku])
Big tech emails leaked during a trial over a decade ago; C-level types agreeing they need to not truly compete but see each other as one big company.
Screen based filter bubble living has kept the digital generation ignorant; it's all built on the same physical principles. No point pretending, at their level, they're doing anything truly different
Mirror neurons are a helluva drug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
Society evolves slowly as generational churn is not fast
we (Ramp) didn't buy anything, we built a model router in house!
"create a cloudflare worker that proxies requests to any number of neoclouds. make no mistakes."
Ramp showed up late into a market and have had more success than almost every company who tried before them. They seem to have some execution skill.
Looking forward to their inclusion on models.dev.
they really buried the lede on which models are supported, then the link is broken as of now to the list (https://app.router.com/supported-models)
thanks for the heads up! fixed!
Routing requests to the ideal model? that's some big talk right there.
check out some of our work in this area
https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-ro...
https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2087163448513765449
Incredible timing.
That's some domain;
Blog post: https://ramp.com/blog/router-launch
router.com! Cool domain though that must have been expensive :P
> that must have been expensive
Indeed, probably not cheap. Ironically, they see themselves as the ones that should help others "stop overpaying for things" and "help companies make better spending decisions":
> Wait, Ramp bought router.com? We did. It was either this or spend the next year spelling out a longer URL on podcasts. More importantly, we build tools that help companies make better spending decisions and stop overpaying for things.
Indeed. Also, ramp.com is shorter than router.com, so I don't really understand the "spelling out a longer URL on podcasts". I guess router.com is just clearer for customers?
US only, right?
for now, yes