# Crouton Alpha

> Crouton Alpha is a lightweight reasoning model for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows. It suits high-volume, repeated work such as agentic sub-tasks, tool use, and document analysis. It reads text, images, audio, and video, has a 1M-token context window, and always reasons (effort from minimal to max). It is a stealth preview model from a third-party provider who has chosen to remain anonymous during this preview. Free during the preview.

**ID**: `stealth/crouton-alpha`  
**Creator**: stealth  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 1M tokens  
**Input**: $0  
**Output**: $0  
**Released**: 2026-11-03  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/stealth/crouton-alpha

**Input modalities**: text, image, audio, video  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, streaming, reasoning, coding, agentic, function-calling, vision

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "stealth/crouton-alpha",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| kilo | $0 | $0 |
| openrouter-byok | $0 | $0 |
| cline-byok | $0 | $0 |
| aihubmix-byok | $0 | $0 |

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://openrouter.ai/stealth/crouton-alpha