Ox Alpha becomes OpenRouter's most popular model, free to test in Pi
omarsar0 · x · 2026-08-24
Ox Alpha, a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads, is currently the most popular model on OpenRouter and is free to use. It offers a 1M token context window with text, image, and video input. The author notes it can be tested for free in the Pi or Hermes Agent harness playground.
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