When was Kolibri 1 released?

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri 1 on 3 Oct 2026. It is available through the Opper gateway.

Does Kolibri 1 support zero data retention?

Yes. Kolibri 1 is available with zero data retention on Munito AI through the Opper gateway.

Where is Kolibri 1 hosted?

Kolibri 1 runs on EU hosting routes through the Opper gateway, with contractually enforced residency on supported providers.

Is Kolibri 1 trained on prompts and outputs?

Training behaviour varies by route. See the per-route data-handling section for each provider's training posture.

Is a GDPR DPA available for Kolibri 1?

Yes. A GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving Kolibri 1. Contact hello@opper.ai to receive it.

Kolibri 1

by Aleph Alpha

Announcement · All Aleph Alpha releases

Kolibri 1 is Aleph Alpha's mixture-of-experts reasoning model, released on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license. It has 78 billion parameters in total but activates only about 3.5 billion per token, which keeps serving cost low while the full model holds the capacity of a much larger one. It was built bilingual by design: a tokenizer tailored to German word structure and a training corpus of roughly 62% English, 24% German and 14% code. The model reasons before answering, with effort levels from low to high, and thinking can be switched off for an immediate reply. It supports tool calling and structured output, and combines both with reasoning. Its native context is 262,144 tokens, and Aleph Alpha has validated it up to one million. Aleph Alpha positions Kolibri for multi-step reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic tool use, coding and German- and English-language assistants, particularly in public administration and regulated industries. It is meant for systems where a person reviews the output before it is acted on, and Aleph Alpha reports that it matches models with up to four times its active parameter count on math, coding, grounding and long-context tasks.

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Context window

Max output

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Input price

$0.13 /1M$0.08 cache read

Output price

$0.51 /1M

Released

3 Oct 2026

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Via Opper

EU residency available on Munito AI and Nodion
Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Kolibri 1 runs on 3 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below. In the EU it is served by Munito AI and Nodion. See every model hosted in the EU. Some routes also sell flex and priority processing: the same model at another price, picked per request with service_tier. How service tiers work.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
Munito AI	EU		No	$0.16	$0.56	$0.09
Munito AI	Multi		No	$0.13	$0.51	$0.08
Nodion	EU	—Not established	—	$0.17	$0.69	Input price	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=kolibri-1

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Kolibri 1 has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Munito AI — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: No classifier
Subprocessor access: Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: Not applicable — data stays in EU

Munito AI — Multi-region

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; unknown; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: No classifier
Subprocessor access: Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: unknown

Nodion — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention posture is not established for this route. Training posture pending review. EU.

Zero data retention: Not established.
GDPR DPA: No DPA
Transfer mechanism: Not applicable — data stays in EU

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1import OpenAI from "openai";
2
3const client = new OpenAI({
4  apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
5  baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
6});
7
8const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
9  model: "kolibri-1",
10  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
11});
12console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);