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)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-called-router/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260820/i28.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260820/p28#a260820p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ram Iyer / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-called-router/">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</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Corporate expense management platform Ramp is hot on the heels of Stripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference.</p>