Polaris Alpha

OpenRouter chatvision Long Free

API ID: openrouter/polaris-alpha

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Polaris Alpha

This model was an early snapshot of GPT-5.1 with reasoning effort set to minimal. Try the official launch of GPT-5.1 [here](/openai/gpt-5.1) This is a cloaked model provided to the community to gather feedback. A powerful, general-purpose model that excels across real-world tasks, with standout performance in coding, tool calling, and instruction following. **Note:** All prompts and completions for this model are logged by the provider and may be used to improve the model.

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Price Ranking
#6 lowest price among 1240 Chat models — Top 20% cheapest!

Model Specifications

Context Length
256k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-11-06
Capabilities
chat vision
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance
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This model is completely free!

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Polaris Alpha API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openrouter/polaris-alpha",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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