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OpenCode's own code names the makers of five past stealth ids. Six are still anonymous, with 5.38 trillion tokens between them

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OpenCode's own code names the models behind five of the stealth ids it has served, and lists six more as still anonymous. Those six have run at least 5.38 trillion tokens on OpenCode since September, by OpenCode's public usage data.

THE ONES OPENCODE HAS NAMED

The stats code in OpenCode's public repository renames claimed stealth ids to the models they turned out to be: ox-alpha and x-preview-f to Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Flash, space-bunny to MiniMax's M3.1 Flash, cat-jam to Reflection AI's Beam, and ll-alpha to Recursive's Flint 40B.

STILL ANONYMOUS

The same file keeps six ids on a stealth list that files their usage under an unknown lab. Each was added by a change in OpenCode's repository on the date shown. omen-alpha (September 4): 654 billion tokens from 47,939 users, last used October 28. The change that added it was titled 'keep omen-alpha under unknown provider'. union-alpha (September 16): 470 billion tokens from 34,066 users, all between September 15 and 17. Reports in September tied it to Circuit & Chisel's Pareto; OpenCode has not renamed it, and we have not confirmed the link. exo (October 6): 115 billion tokens from 12,290 users, October 1 to 21. iceman-contributor (October 24): 3.38 trillion tokens across it and the plain iceman id, still running. pulse-alpha (November 2): 727 billion tokens from 9,600 users in under three days. crouton-alpha (November 3): 34 billion tokens from 6,775 users in its first two days. It is also on OpenRouter as stealth/crouton-alpha, listed at 01:38 UTC on November 3.

HOW WE COUNTED

Token and user counts are from OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data), read at 21:31 UTC on November 4. OpenCode's window starts September 10, so omen-alpha's first six days are not in its total, and the 5.38 trillion figure is a floor. User counts are per id and can't be added together. The names and dates are from OpenCode's repository, the file packages/stats/core/src/domain/model-normalization.ts and the commits that changed it.

WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW

Who made any of the six. When OpenCode renames one, the lab will usually have said so first, and we will update this list. Our stories on Iceman and Pulse Alpha cover those two in detail.

Source: OpenCode's repository (packages/stats/core/src/domain/model-normalization.ts and its commit history) and OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data), both read directly on November 4; OpenRouter's catalog for stealth/crouton-alpha ↗ · the bench index

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