Free mystery model Crouton Alpha with 1M context lands on OpenRouter, likely Meta
mark_k · x · 2026-11-04
A free stealth model called Crouton Alpha just appeared on OpenRouter with a 1M-token context window, accepting text, images, audio, video, and PDFs; the developer is anonymous.
- Positioning: a lightweight model for coding-agent grunt work — tool calls, document reading, subtasks delegated by larger models
- Meta clue: AI Tracker Bot found Crouton stumbles on the same rare Japanese word as Meta's Muse models, with matching reasoning settings and restricted-country lists
- Caveats: token counts differ from Meta's published tokenizer, so attribution remains unconfirmed
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