OpenRouter: Elephant

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memory

Elephant is a text model for general chat, analysis, and production use. It combines low latency and efficient inference with a 262K tokens context window and a free or zero-cost profile. Use it for general chat, analysis, and production workloads when latency, cost, and throughput matters.

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Technical specifications

Elephant at a glance.

Memory

262,144

tokens

Max reply

32,768

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

—

Released

Apr 2026

Training cutoff

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Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Elephant

  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • You need tool-use / function calling for agent workflows.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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Elephant has a 262,144-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 49,152 words of input and history in a single call.
Elephant was released in April 2026.
Models in a similar class include Auto Router, Free Models Router, Gemma 4 26B A4B. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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