Dots3-Note Preview review: free SVG drawings and animation

Four Dots3-Note Preview SVG tasks through OpenRouter's free route: inspect the clock, chart, Chinese poster and cycling animation, with source files, official figures and recorded usage.

Updated: 2026-11-04

Meet Dots3-Note Preview

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Dots3-Note Preview is Dots Studio's open-weight mixture-of-experts model, with 280 billion total parameters and 16 billion active parameters. Its model card is published under Apache 2.0.

The OpenRouter route used here lists a 512K-token context window, accepts text and image inputs, and returns text. In this review, the model writes SVG source code, which is then rendered into images and a WebP animation.

Official model card and weights · GitHub · OpenRouter route

What the four outputs show

The clock has correct hand angles, and the Chinese poster preserves all six required strings. The chart uses correct bar proportions but omits the quarter labels. The animation moves, while its rigid rotating legs do not form a natural pedaling motion.

This page covers three static SVG tasks and one animation, with five actual API requests reporting $0 inference cost. Blender projects and knowledge videos are outside this result set; it does not establish completion of the eleven-task creative suite.

SVG drawings and animation

Three static SVG drawings and one four-second cycling animation from the free OpenRouter model.

An analog clock at 9:41

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An analog clock at 9:41 · default

All twelve numbers are present. The hour hand is at 290.556° and the minute hand at 246.005°, matching 9:41 within coordinate rounding; the hour hand is shorter.

Prompts, parameters and attempt records

OpenRouter free route

All twelve numbers are present. The hour hand is at 290.556° and the minute hand at 246.005°, matching 9:41 within coordinate rounding; the hour hand is shorter. The layout is simple and clear.

2026-11-03 · Recorded request time: 68.87s · This output 5863 token · Token limit 12288

Full request record · SVG

Exact prompt
Return only a complete, self-contained static SVG with viewBox="0 0 800 600". Draw a clear analog clock showing exactly 9:41, with all twelve numbers 1 through 12. The hour hand must be correctly positioned between 9 and 10, not exactly on 9. The minute hand must indicate minute 41. Use a shorter hour hand and a longer minute hand, no second hand. Add a small label "09:41" below the dial. Do not use scripts, external assets or embedded images.

Data chart and proportional bars

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Data chart and proportional bars · default

The four bars share a zero baseline and the correct 2:4:3:5 ratio. Total 84 and Best Q4 are correct, but Q1–Q4 labels are missing from the horizontal axis.

Prompts, parameters and attempt records

OpenRouter free route

The four bars share a zero baseline and the correct 2:4:3:5 ratio. Total 84 and Best Q4 are correct, but Q1–Q4 labels are missing from the horizontal axis.

2026-11-03 · Recorded request time: 116.22s · This output 10376 token · Token limit 12288

Full request record · SVG

Exact prompt
Return only a complete, self-contained static SVG with viewBox="0 0 800 600". Design a polished dashboard card titled "Quarterly Revenue". Draw a vertical bar chart for Q1=12, Q2=24, Q3=18, Q4=30, in that left-to-right order. All four bars must share a zero baseline, and bar heights must be exactly proportional to the values. Show a y-axis labeled 0, 10, 20, 30 and show the value above each bar. Add summary labels "Total: 84" and "Best: Q4". Use a light background and readable typography. Do not use scripts, external assets or embedded images.

Chinese poster and layout constraints

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Chinese poster and layout constraints · default

All six exact Chinese strings appear once, without missing characters, overlap or clipping. Heading and button hierarchy are clear; the bicycle icon is rudimentary and the layout has generous whitespace.

Prompts, parameters and attempt records

OpenRouter free route

All six exact Chinese strings appear once, without missing characters, overlap or clipping. Heading and button hierarchy are clear; the bicycle icon is rudimentary and the layout has generous whitespace.

2026-11-03 · Recorded request time: 48.78s · This output 4172 token · Token limit 12288

Full request record · SVG

Exact prompt
只输出一个完整、自包含的静态 SVG，viewBox="0 0 800 600"。设计一张清晰、精致的中文活动海报。必须且仅包含以下六段文字，每段出现一次，不能增删字或改写：主标题“周末骑行计划”；副标题“慢一点，看见城市”；时间“10月24日 09:00”；地点“滨江公园东门”；说明“自备头盔 · 全程12公里”；按钮文字“立即报名”。画一个简洁的自行车图标。主标题最大，时间地点次之，说明最小。背景浅色，留足边距，所有文字保持在画布内，不重叠，不使用脚本、外部素材或嵌入图片。

Animated cycling pelican

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Animated cycling pelican · default

Spokes and pedals visibly rotate, the subject stays on canvas, and a playable four-second loop is delivered. The legs are rigid rods rotating around the body rather than articulated knees, so pedaling looks unnatural; the frame is rudimentary.

Prompts, parameters and attempt records

OpenRouter free route

Spokes and pedals visibly rotate, the subject stays on canvas, and a playable four-second loop is delivered. The legs are rigid rods rotating around the body rather than articulated knees, so pedaling looks unnatural; the frame is rudimentary.

2026-11-03 · Recorded request time: 353.65s · This output 16247 token · Token limit 32768

Full request record · SVG · WebP

  1. #1 · 2026-11-03T15:49:42.938Z · truncated · 150.6s · Output token allowance reached before SVG content was returned.
Exact prompt
Return only a complete self-contained animated SVG with viewBox="0 0 800 600". Draw a recognizable pelican riding a bicycle: long bill and throat pouch, two wheels, connected frame, saddle and handlebar. Animate rotating wheel spokes and a rotating crank with pedaling legs that remain attached to the rider and pedals. Use SVG SMIL animateTransform/animate/animateMotion only (no CSS animation), with a seamless 4-second repeating loop. Keep the whole bicycle and bird on the canvas. Use a light background. No scripts, foreignObject, external assets, external fonts or embedded images. Use only local SVG shapes and text. The animation must visibly move, not just contain animation tags.
Test settings and data

Tested November 3, 2026, with fixed prompts, temperature 0 and a 600-second request timeout. Reported inference cost is $0; free-route quotas and availability can change. Completion tokens already include reported reasoning tokens.

Static tasks use 12,288 output tokens; the delivered animation uses 32,768. Complete request and truncation records are retained, so this is not an equal-budget first-response comparison.

Animations are captured without source edits at 10 fps for four seconds. Click to play; click again to pause.

5 request records · Timeouts / interruptions / truncations: 0 / 0 / 1

Complete data · Official API documentation

Original first responses, prompts and parameters

Official benchmark figures

Official reasoning and agent benchmarks

Official reasoning and agent benchmarks

Original figure from the Dots Studio model card, with conditions, legend and footnotes retained.

Dots Studio · Source · Original image

More official figures · 1

Official multimodal benchmarks

Official multimodal benchmarks

Original figure from the Dots Studio model card, with conditions, legend and footnotes retained.

Dots Studio · Source · Original image

Chart sources and evaluation conditions

The following original-byte figures come from the Dots Studio model card, checked November 4, 2026. They are vendor-reported and not independently reproduced, separate from TOKRACE outputs.

Dots Studio model card and weights

Official repository and license

OpenRouter free model route

Test conditions, usage and sources

The November 3, 2026 run used the exact model ID dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free through OpenRouter's OpenAI-compatible Chat endpoint, with a zero-price provider filter. Returned identities matched that ID.

The fixed SVG prompts used temperature 0 and a 600-second request timeout. Static tasks used a 12,288-token output limit; the completed animation used 32,768 after the original 12,288-token request was truncated. Original responses and all five request records are retained.

Reported usage totals 804 input tokens and 48,946 completion tokens, including 38,212 reasoning tokens. Cumulative API request time is 587.52 seconds; this excludes preparation and inspection. The reported $0 cost applies to these requests.

All rendered images and representative animation frames were inspected. Source measurements check the clock angles, bar heights and exact poster strings. The animation was exported as 40 frames over four seconds and viewed playing in Chrome. These are automated checks and AI visual observations; no independent human scoring is claimed.

Download prompts, responses and usage · Visual results JSON · Animation and request history JSON

Dots3 model profile · More model reports