Ramp Opens Its AI Router to U.S. Customers, With a One-Year Data Default

Ramp has launched Router, a U.S.-only service that lets companies send requests to and switch among multiple large language models through one API. The product puts an expense-management company closer to the operational decision behind AI spending: which model receives a request, at what cost, and with what performance tradeoff.

Router currently provides access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI and Z.ai. Rather than requiring a customer to separately change model connections, the service is designed to route requests across those options through its API.

Ramp says it used the underlying router internally for its own AI needs for three years before releasing it. The public launch extends a capability that fits alongside the company’s existing AI token-usage monitoring and token-spend management products.

Routing is the product

The service offers several ways to make that routing decision. A customer can prefer a provider’s flex-usage tier, select up to three benchmarks for Router to use in choosing a model, or reserve more expensive models for harder problems. It also supports testing models without manually switching between them.

What customers can monitor

• Token spend and total cost, giving the routing choice a direct budget view.
• Latency, the time associated with a model response.
• Fallback attempts, showing when the system needed another path for a request.

That dashboard makes Router more than a model catalog. It combines the choice of model with measurements that can reveal the price, response-time and fallback behavior associated with that choice.

The important control is outside the router

The most consequential product setting may be its data policy. Router retains model inputs, outputs and tool calls for a year by default. Ramp says it removes personally identifiable information before using that content to improve the product, but customers that do not want the default retention must opt out.

Router’s pricing is also temporary. Ramp is offering a $26 launch credit and waiving its service fee through the end of 2026, excluding inference charges. The company did not state what Router will cost in 2027, leaving the longer-term economics unresolved for customers evaluating it as a routing layer.

Ramp enters a market where OpenRouter already performs a similar function, though OpenRouter offers more model options than Router currently does. Ramp’s narrower initial catalog, U.S. limitation and undisclosed post-2026 price make the launch a bounded first offering rather than a complete answer for every model-routing use case.