Sherlock Think Alpha

OpenRouter chatvisionreasoning Long Free

API ID: openrouter/sherlock-think-alpha

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

About Sherlock Think Alpha

This model was an early snapshot of Grok 4.1 Fast with reasoning enabled. Try the official launch of Grok 4.1 Fast [here](/x-ai/grok-4.1-fast) This is a cloaked model provided to the community to gather feedback. A frontier reasoning model that excels at tool calling, with a 1.8M context window and multimodal support. **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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Model Specifications

Context Length
1.8M
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-11-15
Capabilities
chat vision reasoning
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Sherlock Think 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/sherlock-think-alpha",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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