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Ox Alpha vs Helicon

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Ox Alpha compared with Helicon
DetailOx Alpha logo Ox AlphaHelicon logo Helicon
What it doesFree stealth reasoning model for coding, agentic work, and multimodal workflows available through OpenRouter Free, open-source desktop and web app for Meta's Muse Code CLI
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Pricing modelFree Open source
Pricing$0 per million input tokens, $0 per million output tokens during preview; TryOXAlpha hosted chat offers 5 free guest replies, 15 additional replies after account creation, and 100 AI replies for $4.99 one-time purchase Free, MIT licensed, no paid tier, no trial, no seats, no account. Runs on your existing Muse Code subscription.
Key features
  • 1,048,576-token context window
  • Multimodal inputs: text, image, and video
  • Tool calling and structured outputs
  • Configurable reasoning efforts: low, high, and max
  • OpenAI-compatible API endpoint
  • Supported through OpenRouter model ID stealth/ox-alpha
  • 131,072 output tokens maximum
  • Projects and sessions grouped by working directory and git worktrees
  • Resume sessions including those started in the terminal TUI
  • Inline diffs in the thread at the turn that produced them
  • Every agent approval surfaced and never bypassed
  • Cost tracking at published API rates per thread
  • Full keyboard navigation with command palette
  • File viewer with source, Markdown, image, video and PDF preview
  • Remote daemon support for running the agent on another machine
  • VS Code extension available
  • Native Windows support with PowerShell
What makes it different
  • 1M token context window for repository-scale coding tasks
  • Multimodal support combining code with screenshots and diagrams
  • Free preview pricing during stealth release
  • Tool calling and structured output for agentic workflows
  • No additional cost or billing on top of existing Muse Code subscription
  • Credentials stay with the muse CLI, never stored by Helicon
  • Native Windows support without requiring WSL
  • MIT licensed open-source with no company behind it
  • Sessions and approvals never bypassed or batched
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Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet −1 (down) since last check11 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)014
Citation Flow (Majestic)1727
Referring domains (Majestic)1134

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