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New stealth model: Union Alpha

OpenRouter listed a new stealth model called Union Alpha on September 16, 2026, developed and operated by an anonymous third-party provider. Union Alpha is a multimodal model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows with a 262K context window, offered free of charge, with prompts and completions that may be retained by the provider but not used for training. OpenRouter routes requests to the model and states it is not the developer, owner, or provider.

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New stealth model: Union Alpha
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This stealth model is developed and operated by a third-party model provider. Prompts and completions for this model may retained by the provider but are not used for training; all other use is governed by Stealth Model TermsOpens in new tab

Union Alpha is a multimodal model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows, while delivering frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks.

Union Alpha  is a stealth model. It is developed and operated by a third-party provider who has chosen to remain anonymous during this preview. OpenRouter routes requests to it and is not its developer, owner, or provider. Prompts and completions may be retained by the provider but are not used for training; all other use is governed by the [Stealth Model TermsOpens in new tab](https://openrouter.ai/terms/stealth)

Modalities

Price

Free

Context

262K

Released

Sep 16, 2026

| | Free | Free | 29.62s | 19 tps | |

Throughput

19tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

29.62s

P50, best provider

100.00%

98.12%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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