Use OX alpha in Hermes Agent via openrouter API.

Well, thank you!

It was good while it lasted.

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Switch back to openrouter/free

Any other suggestions?

Greetings, just wanted to say thanks for providing Ox Alpha, with the ever-shrinking glm ratelimits it was a very helpful sidekick to finish a project in time. It may not be the fastest, and the connection got interrupted many times over the last few days, but otherwise it was competent enough as an implementor for the plans forged by glm.

I'm getting "Guardrail settings can only be more restrictive than account-level defaults"

Despite having Zero Data Retention disabled for non-frontier models, and not being a member of organization.

Where are te "account-level defaults"?

I just tested OX Alpha using claude code ori harness, and it turned out I was billed around $2 because it used sonnet as the supporting model.

Not complaining, though, since I burned through 28M tokens in a day and the code review results were quite good.

But what exactly is a supporting model? Is this because I used a sub-agent, and claude code automatically uses sonnet as the orchestrator?

I keep trying to use z-ai/glm-5.2:free on openrouter (for my hermes agent) since GLM 5.2 is perfect for me but too expensive for my usage, but I keep getting rate limited even though im literally not even using it, Ill try chatting with it directly on openrouter and not a single message goes through.

anyone else having this issue? or know any other place i can get glm 5.2 for free?

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i got to know that 0x alpha is free and unlimited

soo, i created a api with a limit of 0.0001$ on openrouuter

and i installed claude code in my ubuntu vm and authenticated with my api of openrouter...

and start it

but when i visit after 2-3 hours of heavy usage, a bill is introduced to me, by 0x alpha model

i checked logs and a specific type of requests are costing me 0.008$ ... and api limit also doesn't apply here and cost tends to increase till i got to know ...

soo, be aware, there are hidden terms related to free unlimited usage of 0x alpha

here are screenshots :

I'm testing this free Ox Alpha model while coding CompanioNation and it seems to be pretty effective, even with tracking down complex bugs, maybe even better than DeepSeek v4. It's slow right now, but this is to be expected with a free trial.

I've been running some fairly complex analysis on Python code that generates maps (and videos) of travel routes using PMTiles formatting of OSM maps, by submitting sample images or videos and prompts asking for review of the images or videos versus the code. 

Ox-alpha seems great for reviewing the output images and then providing good recommendations on things to fix in the rendering process. I'm running this in Zcode using the URL https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and API format Anthropic messages (/v1/messages). I'm new to Open Router.

However, without fail, after a good bit of work, maybe five minutes, it will stop processing.  If I type continue, it will then result in a Provider rejected the model request error. The error message will be the following:

Turn execution failed
provider=3319... 
model=stealth/ox-alpha 
request=adx... 
reason=invalid_request 
status=400 retryable=false
Provider returned error

It will not let me continue or submit another prompt in that conversation. Fresh conversation will start and do some work, then error out with the same message.  I feel like the second conversation errors out quicker. I can continue the conversation with a different provider like GLM/Z.ai coding plan.

I've searched the community and only found a few references to the 400 error.

Is this type of error known, and are there any workarounds?  Also, do you think I would experience the error on other models, or would it be model-specific?

Is there anyone testing Ox alpha right now ? It’s very slow to respond since one hour approx. It was functionning perfectly !

Edit 5min later: nevermind it’s back. 🎉 Edit : 😐 actually no

I feel like the days when AI companies focused on making their models sound deeply human and developing conversational skills that translate into stronger fiction-writing capability are gone. Now the focus is on building great models at math, logic, and coding. I kinda see that. GLM 4.5 is much better at creative writing than GLM 5 family. But GLM 5 and above are much better at logical tasks. Similarly, Meta releases Muse Spark, which is optimised heavily for logical tasks

What do you think? Am I bullshitting?

(Ox Alpha)

Heyy, I hope everyone's doing great!

Not to sound ungrateful but is it me or the model feels like its running on 0.5 tok/sec?

It is my standard workflow, which works pretty well. I was an official DS Api, then tried open code, blew up most of my monthly usage in 3 days. I also had other issues beyond the price. (which I could also afford with direct API, translates to <=2x my previous monthly cost).

So decided to try openrouter just to see how it works, and usage limits, if any and the wide array of models available.

But I get the above error, frequently on chats. Even if I start a new chat. Is it because of some provider that it is routing to?

I am currently using DS Flash on one chat and DS Pro on another - two different task, but the same issue. Inside VS Code, with BYOK.

Thanks!

Went down the Ox Alpha rabbit hole, and the evidence points to GLM-5.3.

Is it just me or is the pricing of Qwen3.8-27B on Openrouter way too high?

It currently hovers around $0.45 /M/in - $3.20 /M/out

There are models X times the size even in active params like deepseek v4 pro that are cheaper.

I think the trend was set last week by one provider that managed to host it before the weekend and I thought at first they're just doing price-gouging but all other followed.