Auto (best value)

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sparrow/auto

Picks a model per request: fast, low-cost models for simple prompts and stronger ones for long, technical or tool-using requests. You pay the chosen model's price; the response says which model answered.

Chat
1M context
0 max output
Vision
Tools

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Pricing

No price of its own: each request is billed at the list price of the model it is routed to, shown in the response and your activity log.

Performance on SparrowCodes

Measured from real requests over the last 7 days.

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Official benchmarks

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Specifications

Type: Chat
Served by
Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output: 0 tokens
Input types: Text, Image
Tool calling: Supported

Use it

curl https://api.sparrowcodes.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPARROW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sparrow/auto",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain rate limiting in one paragraph."}]
  }'

Set "model" to sparrow/auto. The response includes its exact cost.