Crouton Alpha
Crouton Alpha comes from a stealth vendor, so the developer behind it is not disclosed. It accepts text, image, video, file, and audio input, with a context window of 1,048,576 tokens and a maximum completion length of 943,718 tokens. It supports tool calling and reasoning. The listing does not document structured output support or whether the weights are open. The model is free to use, with input and output both priced at $0 per million tokens. That makes it cheap to test on long-document, multimodal, or tool-driven workloads. It has no independent benchmark coverage yet, so its quality is unproven against scored alternatives. Shortlist it for experimentation or cost-sensitive prototyping where you can run your own evaluations. Keep a benchmarked model in reserve for production decisions, since an undisclosed vendor also means less is known about who stands behind it.
- Model ID
- stealth/crouton-alpha
- Vendor
- stealth
- Released
- November 2026
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Input Modalities
- text, image, video, file, audio
- Output Modalities
- text
- Max Output
- 943,718 tokens
- Tool Calling
- ✓ supported
- Structured Output
- ✓ supported
- Reasoning Mode
- ✓ supported
- Vision
- ✓ accepts images
- Audio
- ✓ accepts audio
- Moderated
- no
Strong choice for
Social Media Posts
Voice Assistant Backend
Transcription
TTS Replacement
Video Auto-Tagging
Cheap Bulk Inference
Category rankings
Where Crouton Alpha places across the 10 categories it ranks in. How we rank →
| # | Category | Score |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Social Media PostsWriting · of 25 ranked | 120 |
| #1 | Voice Assistant BackendVoice · of 25 ranked | 124 |
| #1 | TranscriptionVoice · of 25 ranked | 123 |
| #1 | TTS ReplacementVoice · of 25 ranked | 115 |
| #1 | Video Auto-TaggingVideo · of 25 ranked | 123 |
| #1 | Cheap Bulk InferenceCost · of 25 ranked | 138 |
| #1 | Self-Hosted / LocalCost · of 25 ranked | 118 |
| #1 | Real-Time ChatLatency · of 25 ranked | 118 |
| #10 | Audio SummarizationVoice · of 25 ranked | 139 |
| #25 | Video SummarizationVideo · of 25 ranked | 139 |
Quick answers
- Is Crouton Alpha free to use?
- Yes. It is currently listed at no cost per token via OpenRouter, subject to provider rate limits.
- What is Crouton Alpha's context window?
- 1,048,576 tokens, roughly 1,572 pages of text in a single request.
- Does Crouton Alpha support tool calling?
- It supports tool calling, structured output, a reasoning mode.
- Can Crouton Alpha process images?
- Yes, it accepts image input.