# OpenRouter launches free stealth model Crouton Alpha for agent workloads

> Original title: 🥷 New stealth model: Crouton Alpha

- Source: OpenRouter
- Published: 2026-11-03T20:17:08.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wrwofvydv3fabdhw026981v38
- Original: https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2117712705901728199

## Summary

OpenRouter releases Crouton Alpha, a stealth reasoning model it describes as built to scale out repetitive agent work. The model is free to use, offers a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, audio, and video input, and does not train on user data.

## Post

🥷 New stealth model: Crouton Alpha

A highly efficient reasoning model built to scale out the work your agents repeat all day.

- Free to use
- 1M token context
- Text, image, audio, and video input
- No training on data