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New on the radar: particle-1 appeared in OpenRouter catalog
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Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.
Catalog id: particle-ai/particle-1 Listed price: $0.25/$1.00 per 1M Context window: 1,048,576 tokens First observed by our sweep: 2026-10-28 22:15 UTC Source: OpenRouter catalog
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