TrustedRouter
Category: AI Infrastructure
TrustedRouter is an open-source, privacy-first AI model router. It gives developers one OpenAI-compatible API to hundreds of models, served through an attested confidential-computing gateway. The company is led by Joseph Perla. Based in Miami, United States. Total funding raised: $7.25M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Sierra Ventures, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Bill Tai, Linda Avey, George Xing.
- Headquarters
- Miami, United States
- Total funding
- $7.25M
Value proposition
Developers can access 600+ models across 80+ providers by changing a single base_url. The service guarantees that prompts and outputs are not logged. Customers can set a minimum privacy level (zero-data-retention, confidential computing, end-to-end encryption), and the gateway fails closed rather than falling back to a weaker route.
Products and solutions
TrustedRouter API (OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway, Chat and Responses APIs), routing aliases (auto, zdr, e2e, eu, synth), attested TEE gateway with public trust evidence, BYOK, budget and spend controls, Python/TypeScript SDKs, MCP server, public status and latency benchmarks, Synth combination models, planned 'New York Token Exchange' marketplace for AI tokens.
Unique value
Unlike OpenRouter, the prompt path is verifiable. The gateway runs in a Trusted Execution Environment with remote attestation tied to public source code, and some open-weight models get end-to-end encryption, so neither TrustedRouter nor the host data center can read prompts or outputs.
Target customer
Developers, startups and enterprises that handle sensitive data, especially in legal, finance and healthcare. These customers want multi-model access, lower AI costs and verifiable privacy.
Industries served
Legal, finance, healthcare, software development / coding agents, research and evaluations
Technology advantage
Open-source gateway, SDKs and deployment config; hardware attestation linking the running image to a public commit; fail-closed privacy enforcement; exact quantization verification; multi-cloud fallback with public health data; 5.5% fee on provider costs with no seat or monthly fees.
How they differentiate
Verifiable confidential computing and E2EE for open-weight models, an open-source and attested gateway, no logging of prompt or output content, and explicit privacy routing constraints that fail closed. Competitors are hosted gateways without attestation (OpenRouter, Portkey) or self-hosted proxies (LiteLLM).
Main competitors
OpenRouter, Portkey, LiteLLM (also Vercel AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Gateway)
Key partnerships
Routes across 80+ inference providers, including NEAR AI confidential inference (Private TEE routes), deployed across three clouds
Notable customers
Robot, Robot & Human (legal AI platform; 170,974 documents processed as of August 5, 2026)
Major milestones
Public beta May 2026, $1.25M seed announced Aug 31, 2026 (Axios), public launch ~Sept 2026, $6M seed led by Sierra Ventures, Oct 2026 (Semafor). Sources do not state whether the $6M includes the earlier $1.25M, so the $7.25M total assumes they are separate rounds. Operated by Lore Hex Corp, a Delaware C Corp.
Growth metrics
Crossed 1 billion routed tokens in a single day (Aug 2026). Hundreds of customers, mostly acquired through word of mouth. Catalog of 676 models across 80+ providers.
Market positioning
Privacy-first OpenRouter alternative in the fast-growing AI model routing / LLM gateway sector, which was validated by Stripe's reported $7.5B deal to acquire OpenRouter.
Geographic focus
US-based with global developer reach; offers EU and US routing options
About Joseph Perla
Founder & CEO, Turntable.fm / Turntable Labs and Hangout; co-founder, Terminal.com; Product & engineering on Facebook News Feed (iOS); early engineer, Lyft; Bridgewater; Princeton alum; AI PhD (dropout). Four-time exited founder; Olympiad silver medalist.
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Official website: https://trustedrouter.com