Owl Alpha
Openrouter Owl Alpha — pricing, 1049k context window, API cost calculator and alternatives.
By Openrouter
Specs
- Provider
- Openrouter
- Slug
- openrouter/owl-alpha
- Capabilities
- tools, json_mode
Pricing freshness
- Tier
- standard
- Currency
- USD
- As of
- 2026-05-08 17:08 UTC
Pricing history
Tracking Owl Alpha pricing since 2026-05-08. We'll plot the chart here once it changes.
Quickstart — call Owl Alpha from your app
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "openrouter/owl-alpha",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'
Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openrouter/owl-alpha",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
// npm install openai
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "openrouter/owl-alpha",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);
Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
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Frequently asked questions
What is Owl Alpha?
Owl Alpha is a large language model API from Openrouter with a 1M-token context window. It costs $0 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens.
How much does Owl Alpha cost?
Owl Alpha is priced at $0 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens via the Openrouter API. A 50/50 input/output workload of 1M total tokens costs about $0.
What is the context window of Owl Alpha?
Owl Alpha supports up to 1M tokens of context per request — roughly 2098 pages of English text or 131095 lines of code at a typical density.
Does Owl Alpha support vision, tool use, or JSON mode?
Owl Alpha supports tool/function calling and structured JSON mode. It does not support image input (vision).
Who makes Owl Alpha?
Owl Alpha is built and operated by Openrouter. Pricing, context window, and capabilities on this page are refreshed nightly from Openrouter's public catalog.
Can I self-host Owl Alpha?
Owl Alpha is API-only — its weights are not publicly distributed by Openrouter, so it cannot be self-hosted today.