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Union Alpha
by Stealth
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPFAST ANSWERSCOMPLEX REASONINGPAID
RANKED #6 OF 18 CODE · OVERALL #186 OF 494 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.1 · 5,556 VOICES ·
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A fast coding assistant designed to help developers with complex programming tasks.
HAPPY6.7
26 mentions
SAD8.3
42 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 5,555 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Stealth hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Union Alpha is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for rich multimodal understanding across images, video, and audio.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT2.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekPick for strong visual reasoning and tool use at a fraction of the cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.8Ternary Bonsai 2 27BPrism MlPick to run vision and text locally on standard consumer hardware.🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE⚡ FAST12.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Union Alpha is popular for its fast responses and strong coding help. However, users complain about its high price, frequent outages, and a tendency to lecture or refuse requests.
800 POSTS · 4756 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (6 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT MORE
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (6 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (4 mentions)
- People find it expensive (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- PriceA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM GITHUB >
“[pain-journal] Evaluate: provider-crash recovery path for scheduled waves — union-alpha unmapped in shared route policy.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-09-16 · 412 UPVOTESNew stealth model: Union Alpha
New stealth model: Union Alpha
- REDDIT · 2026-09-16 · 76 UPVOTESUnion Alpha
Union Alpha
- BLOG · 2026-09-17 · 32 UPVOTES[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Steve Yegge has been very popular and loud in his gung ho adoption of tokenmaxxing, so it is sobering to see him now shut down Gas Town and admit that despite spending many thousands a month on coding agent subscriptions… he only ever built Gas Town with it:…
- REDDIT · 2023-07-05 · 28 UPVOTES3D Brain Tumor Segmentation in PyTorch using U-Net & Eigenvector projection for color invariance [PROJECT]
3D Brain Tumor Segmentation in PyTorch using U-Net & Eigenvector projection for color invariance [PROJECT]
- BLUESKY · 2026-09-16 · 19 UPVOTESi hereby guess that Union-Alpha is GPT-6 Sol
i hereby guess that Union-Alpha is GPT-6 Sol
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-16 · 15 UPVOTESNew stealth model: Union Alpha
New stealth model: Union Alpha
- REDDIT · 2026-09-16 · 15 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-09-16 · 10 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- GITHUB · 2026-09-17 · 3 UPVOTESfix: client recovery, unsaved drafts, and complete log history
fix: client recovery, unsaved drafts, and complete log history
- GITHUB · 2026-09-17 · 3 UPVOTESfix: harden CLI ownership and execution-hook recovery (audit part 3)
fix: harden CLI ownership and execution-hook recovery (audit part 3)
- GITHUB · 2026-09-17 · 3 UPVOTESfix: validate bead contracts and preserve structured-output content
fix: validate bead contracts and preserve structured-output content
- GITHUB · 2026-09-17 · 0 UPVOTESCOMPLETE dashboard rewrite: live page-by-page shadcn visual fidelity and component coverage tracker
COMPLETE dashboard rewrite: live page-by-page shadcn visual fidelity and component coverage tracker