Meituan LongCat-2.0 Powers OpenRouter Owl Alpha Agent Model

I’m hearing that "Owl Alpha", one of OpenRouter’s fastest-growing agent models, is actually Meituan LongCat-2.0-Preview

The reported design is a huge 1.6T-parameter MoE, active 48B.

A dynamic active range of roughly 33B to 56B, and natively supports a 1M-token context window.

"Owl Alpha" has been quietly trialed on OpenRouter for nearly two months and has already become one of the most used agent models globally.

The usage numbers are striking. Captured OpenRouter data shows: - #1 on Hermes Agent - #2 on Claude Code - #3 on OpenClaw

- 10.1T monthly tokens - 559B daily tokens - +242% monthly growth

That is extraordinary for a model still operating under an anonymous name.

The model ("Owl Alpha") is designed for agentic workloads:

- tool calling - multi-step reasoning - long-context execution - code generation - automated workflows - complex instruction following - DevOps-style tasks