Ox Alpha returns free on Mercury Cloud

Free access to a powerful, mysterious model is excellent for experimentation, but the usage spike shows that reliability—not raw capability—will determine whether developers can depend on it.

• –Mercury’s increased capacity should make large coding and reasoning sessions more practical.
• –Ox Alpha’s 1M-token context window suits whole-codebase analysis and long-running agent tasks.
• –Its anonymous provenance and limited independent evaluation make benchmark claims worth treating cautiously.
• –Free stealth access is likely temporary, so developers should avoid building production dependencies around it.