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New on the radar: frantic-ferret-free appeared in models.dev (opencode)
An email when a new frontier model answers on a public API, about 15 minutes after members · free, no card
What this is
Frantic Ferret Free is one of the stealth models OpenCode serves under a codename without naming the lab that made it. OpenCode first listed it on the OpenCode console on November 8, 2026. Free for a limited time; OpenCode's docs say the data it collects is retained for 30 days and not used for training. OpenCode serves it on the same Responses endpoint as Crouton Alpha, and its region and data terms match Crouton Alpha's word for word. No lab had claimed it when ArtificialWatch last checked, on November 8, 2026.
All 13 OpenCode stealth models and who made each · OpenCode's pull request that listed it
Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.
Catalog id: opencode/frantic-ferret-free
Listed price: $0/$0 per 1M
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
First observed by our sweep: 2026-11-08 20:42 UTC
Source: models.dev (opencode)
This entry is machine-written from what the sweep actually read, and nothing else. A catalog listing is a primary source for exactly one narrow fact — that this id now exists, at this price, with this context window — and it is not evidence of anything beyond that. It does not tell you the model is good, that the listing is intentional, that the weights are open, or that the vendor has announced it. Those questions need a human and an editor's judgement, and this item deliberately does not answer them.
It does not map to any entry on our watchlist, which is itself worth a look: either a family we do not track yet, or a variant of one we do.
The radar reads the public model catalogs every hour and the provider APIs every 60 seconds. Signal texts you the minute a launch is confirmed; free alerts follow by email about 15 minutes later.
