# Aurora Alpha: AI model fact sheet

- **Provider:** openrouter
- **Released:** 2026-02-09
- **Context window:** 128,000 tokens
- **API pricing:** $0.000 / 1M input, $0.000 / 1M output
- **OpenRouter ID:** openrouter/aurora-alpha
- **Capabilities:** conversation, reasoning, code-generation, analysis, agentic-tool-use

Aurora Alpha is a cloaked reasoning model provided by OpenRouter to gather community feedback. Designed for speed, it is built for coding assistants, real-time conversational applications, and agentic workflows. Default reasoning effort is set to medium for fast responses; for agentic coding use cases, high effort is recommended.

Source: real side-by-side outputs, pricing and specs at https://rival.tips/models/aurora-alpha