[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-post-\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-free-stealth-model-1m-context":3,"news-related-en-\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-free-stealth-model-1m-context":115,"hreflang-openrouter-crouton-alpha-stealth-2026-11":132},{"doc":4,"redirect":8},{"id":5,"title":6,"author":7,"author_avatar":8,"body":9,"category":95,"date":96,"description":97,"extension":98,"image":99,"meta":100,"navigation":101,"path":102,"seo":103,"seoDescription":104,"seoTitle":105,"stem":106,"tags":107,"translationKey":113,"updatedAt":8,"__hash__":114},"news_en\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-free-stealth-model-1m-context.md","Crouton Alpha: a free, anonymous 1M-token model lands on OpenRouter","Paul Lefizelier",null,{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":88},"minimark",[12,36,41,47,53,57,64,68,75,85],[13,14,15,16,24,25,29,30,35],"p",{},"A new anonymous model appeared on OpenRouter on 3 November 2026. ",[17,18,23],"a",{"href":19,"rel":20,"target":22},"https:\u002F\u002Fopenrouter.ai\u002Fstealth\u002Fcrouton-alpha",[21],"nofollow","_blank","Crouton Alpha",", model ID ",[26,27,28],"code",{},"stealth\u002Fcrouton-alpha",", is free to call and accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens per request, the largest context among OpenRouter's current stealth models (",[17,31,34],{"href":32,"rel":33,"target":22},"https:\u002F\u002Fopenrouter.ai\u002Fstealth",[21],"OpenRouter",").",[37,38,40],"h2",{"id":39},"what-openrouter-says-it-is-for","What OpenRouter says it is for",[13,42,43,44,35],{},"OpenRouter describes it as \"a lightweight model built for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows\", aimed at agentic sub-tasks, tool use and document analysis in \"high-volume, repeated work\". The suggested setup is to pair it with a frontier reasoning model that plans, while Crouton Alpha executes \"the bounded steps\" (",[17,45,34],{"href":19,"rel":46,"target":22},[21],[13,48,49,50,35],{},"The listing shows text, image, video, file and audio input with text output, plus support for tools, structured output and a reasoning-effort setting (",[17,51,34],{"href":19,"rel":52,"target":22},[21],[37,54,56],{"id":55},"who-built-it-unknown","Who built it: unknown",[13,58,59,60,63],{},"Crouton Alpha \"is developed and operated by a third-party provider who has chosen to remain anonymous during this preview\". OpenRouter only routes requests and says it is not the developer, owner or provider (",[17,61,34],{"href":19,"rel":62,"target":22},[21],"). Stealth listings like this are usually how labs test a model before naming it, but nothing published so far says which lab is behind this one, and guessing would be speculation.",[37,65,67],{"id":66},"the-catch-before-you-send-it-real-work","The catch before you send it real work",[13,69,70,71,74],{},"Two lines on the listing matter more than the price (",[17,72,34],{"href":19,"rel":73,"target":22},[21],"):",[76,77,78,82],"ul",{},[79,80,81],"li",{},"Prompts and completions \"may be retained by the provider\", though they are not used for training.",[79,83,84],{},"All other use falls under OpenRouter's Stealth Model Terms.",[13,86,87],{},"Free is a preview price, not a promise. Do not send it client data, secrets or proprietary code you would not want an unnamed company to keep. For throwaway sub-tasks in a vibe-coding loop, such as summarising docs or running tool calls on public data, it is a cheap way to test whether a light model handles the grunt work your main model is currently paying for.",{"title":89,"searchDepth":90,"depth":90,"links":91},"",2,[92,93,94],{"id":39,"depth":90,"text":40},{"id":55,"depth":90,"text":56},{"id":66,"depth":90,"text":67},"ai","2026-11-04T22:15:00","OpenRouter listed Crouton Alpha on 3 November 2026, a free stealth model for coding agents, tool use and document analysis with a 1,048,576-token context. Its developer is anonymous, and prompts may be retained.","md","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-stealth-model.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-free-stealth-model-1m-context",{"title":6,"description":97},"Crouton Alpha is a free OpenRouter stealth model for agent sub-tasks, tool use and documents, with 1M-token context. Who built it is undisclosed, and prompts may be retained.","Crouton Alpha on OpenRouter: free stealth model, 1M context","news\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-free-stealth-model-1m-context",[108,109,110,111,112],"openrouter","stealth-model","ai-agents","vibe-coding","llm","openrouter-crouton-alpha-stealth-2026-11","ao8slDJ5wndcLHqd41VgFMJV8CyDfNA5SyLknpHJylc",[116,121,127],{"title":117,"description":118,"path":119,"date":96,"image":120,"category":95},"Anthropic's FlashProve aims to prove which AI model actually answered you","On 2 November 2026 Anthropic's Frontier Red Team released FlashProve, an open-source prototype that lets a provider prove a reply came from a committed model without revealing its weights. It is research code, with no deployment planned.","\u002Fnews\u002Fanthropic-flashprove-provable-inference-which-model-answered","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fanthropic-flashprove-provable-inference.jpg",{"title":122,"description":123,"path":124,"date":125,"image":126,"category":95},"EU court adviser: AI chatbots like Gemini can infringe press publishers' rights","On 3 November 2026, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar told the EU Court of Justice that a chatbot reusing news articles in its answers may infringe publishers' rights, while training on them is, as a rule, allowed.","\u002Fnews\u002Feu-court-adviser-gemini-chatbot-press-publishers-rights","2026-11-04T17:30:00","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fcjeu-gemini-press-publishers-rights.jpg",{"title":128,"description":129,"path":130,"date":125,"image":131,"category":95},"OpenAI raises its bug bounty: up to $172,000 for the worst ChatGPT flaws","On 2 November 2026, OpenAI raised Security Bug Bounty rewards. Critical bugs in ChatGPT, Codex or the API Platform now pay up to $30,000, and exceptional findings up to $172,000 with new bonuses.","\u002Fnews\u002Fopenai-bug-bounty-172000-chatgpt-codex-api","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fopenai-bug-bounty-172000.jpg",{"en":133,"fr":188,"es":8},{"id":5,"title":6,"author":7,"author_avatar":8,"body":134,"category":95,"date":96,"description":97,"extension":98,"image":99,"meta":185,"navigation":101,"path":102,"seo":186,"seoDescription":104,"seoTitle":105,"stem":106,"tags":187,"translationKey":113,"updatedAt":8,"__hash__":114},{"type":10,"value":135,"toc":180},[136,146,148,153,158,160,165,167,172,178],[13,137,15,138,24,141,29,143,35],{},[17,139,23],{"href":19,"rel":140,"target":22},[21],[26,142,28],{},[17,144,34],{"href":32,"rel":145,"target":22},[21],[37,147,40],{"id":39},[13,149,43,150,35],{},[17,151,34],{"href":19,"rel":152,"target":22},[21],[13,154,49,155,35],{},[17,156,34],{"href":19,"rel":157,"target":22},[21],[37,159,56],{"id":55},[13,161,59,162,63],{},[17,163,34],{"href":19,"rel":164,"target":22},[21],[37,166,67],{"id":66},[13,168,70,169,74],{},[17,170,34],{"href":19,"rel":171,"target":22},[21],[76,173,174,176],{},[79,175,81],{},[79,177,84],{},[13,179,87],{},{"title":89,"searchDepth":90,"depth":90,"links":181},[182,183,184],{"id":39,"depth":90,"text":40},{"id":55,"depth":90,"text":56},{"id":66,"depth":90,"text":67},{},{"title":6,"description":97},[108,109,110,111,112],{"id":189,"title":190,"author":7,"author_avatar":8,"body":191,"category":95,"date":96,"description":260,"extension":98,"image":99,"meta":261,"navigation":101,"path":262,"seo":263,"seoDescription":264,"seoTitle":265,"stem":266,"tags":267,"translationKey":113,"updatedAt":8,"__hash__":270},"news_fr\u002Ffr\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-modele-furtif-gratuit-1m-contexte.md","Crouton Alpha : un modèle anonyme, gratuit et à 1 million de tokens arrive sur OpenRouter",{"type":10,"value":192,"toc":255},[193,206,210,216,222,226,233,237,244,252],[13,194,195,196,199,200,202,203,35],{},"Un nouveau modèle anonyme est apparu sur OpenRouter le 3 novembre 2026. ",[17,197,23],{"href":19,"rel":198,"target":22},[21],", identifiant ",[26,201,28],{},", est gratuit et accepte jusqu'à 1 048 576 tokens par requête, le plus grand contexte parmi les modèles furtifs actuellement proposés par OpenRouter (",[17,204,34],{"href":32,"rel":205,"target":22},[21],[37,207,209],{"id":208},"à-quoi-il-sert-selon-openrouter","À quoi il sert selon OpenRouter",[13,211,212,213,35],{},"OpenRouter le présente comme « un modèle léger conçu pour des workflows de code, agentiques et multimodaux à grande échelle », destiné aux sous-tâches d'agents, à l'appel d'outils et à l'analyse de documents dans des « travaux répétitifs à fort volume ». L'usage suggéré : l'associer à un modèle de raisonnement de pointe qui planifie, pendant que Crouton Alpha exécute « les étapes bornées » (",[17,214,34],{"href":19,"rel":215,"target":22},[21],[13,217,218,219,35],{},"La fiche indique des entrées texte, image, vidéo, fichier et audio avec une sortie texte, ainsi que la prise en charge des outils, des sorties structurées et d'un réglage de l'effort de raisonnement (",[17,220,34],{"href":19,"rel":221,"target":22},[21],[37,223,225],{"id":224},"qui-la-construit-mystère","Qui l'a construit : mystère",[13,227,228,229,232],{},"Crouton Alpha « est développé et opéré par un fournisseur tiers qui a choisi de rester anonyme pendant cette préversion ». OpenRouter se contente de router les requêtes et précise ne pas être le développeur, le propriétaire ni le fournisseur (",[17,230,34],{"href":19,"rel":231,"target":22},[21],"). Ce type de fiche furtive sert souvent aux laboratoires à tester un modèle avant de le nommer, mais rien de publié à ce jour n'indique qui est derrière celui-ci, et toute supposition serait de la spéculation.",[37,234,236],{"id":235},"le-piège-avant-de-lui-confier-du-vrai-travail","Le piège avant de lui confier du vrai travail",[13,238,239,240,243],{},"Deux lignes de la fiche comptent plus que le prix (",[17,241,34],{"href":19,"rel":242,"target":22},[21],") :",[76,245,246,249],{},[79,247,248],{},"Les prompts et réponses « peuvent être conservés par le fournisseur », sans être utilisés pour l'entraînement.",[79,250,251],{},"Tout autre usage relève des conditions des modèles furtifs d'OpenRouter.",[13,253,254],{},"La gratuité est un prix de préversion, pas une promesse. N'y envoyez pas de données clients, de secrets ni de code propriétaire que vous ne voudriez pas voir conservés par une entreprise inconnue. Pour des sous-tâches jetables dans une boucle de vibe coding, comme résumer de la documentation ou enchaîner des appels d'outils sur des données publiques, c'est un moyen peu coûteux de tester si un modèle léger peut absorber le travail répétitif que votre modèle principal vous facture aujourd'hui.",{"title":89,"searchDepth":90,"depth":90,"links":256},[257,258,259],{"id":208,"depth":90,"text":209},{"id":224,"depth":90,"text":225},{"id":235,"depth":90,"text":236},"OpenRouter a ajouté Crouton Alpha le 3 novembre 2026, un modèle furtif gratuit pour les agents de code, l'appel d'outils et l'analyse de documents, avec un contexte de 1 048 576 tokens. Son développeur est anonyme et les prompts peuvent être conservés.",{},"\u002Ffr\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-modele-furtif-gratuit-1m-contexte",{"title":190,"description":260},"Crouton Alpha est un modèle furtif gratuit sur OpenRouter pour sous-tâches d'agents, outils et documents, avec 1M de tokens de contexte. Son auteur est inconnu et les prompts peuvent être conservés.","Crouton Alpha sur OpenRouter : modèle furtif gratuit, 1M de contexte","fr\u002Fnews\u002Fopenrouter-crouton-alpha-modele-furtif-gratuit-1m-contexte",[108,268,269,111,112],"modele-furtif","agents-ia","Z66dk1YlpAsvDH6BiAtYiyw05x5-3Q5ewQf0IgfPBHI"]