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.

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.

because they would be meaningless words on trust me bro paper.

Same day? The acquisition has been public knowledge for at least a week.

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

we (Ramp) didn't buy anything, we built a model router in house!

thanks for the heads up! fixed!

check out some of our work in this area

https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-ro...

https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2087163448513765449

> 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.

for now, yes