Release2026-08-20

A model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, offered free of charge during a preview period and aimed at coding, long-running agent tasks and production use. It accepts text, images and video, and handles unusually large amounts of input at once. The provider behind it is anonymous and keeps copies of prompts and responses, though it states these are not used for training.

What changed

The model was not previously available on OpenRouter.

What it unlocks

Testing a long-context reasoning model for coding and multi-step agent work at no token cost.

  • 1,048,576 token context window
  • 131,072 max output tokens
  • free during preview

What you need to act on it

  • an OpenRouter account
  • acceptance that the anonymous provider retains prompts and completions

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