diff --git a/src/lib/providerModels/modelDiscovery.ts b/src/lib/providerModels/modelDiscovery.ts
index 5ab8a9fb9f..ad83c61cf6 100644
--- a/src/lib/providerModels/modelDiscovery.ts
+++ b/src/lib/providerModels/modelDiscovery.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ function toNonEmptyString(value: unknown): string | null {
   return typeof value === "string" && value.trim().length > 0 ? value.trim() : null;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Resolve a positive integer token limit from a list of candidate values.
+ * Used to fall back across the differently-named context/output fields that
+ * upstream catalogs expose (e.g. OpenRouter uses `context_length` /
+ * `top_provider.context_length` instead of `inputTokenLimit`). See #3202.
+ */
+function firstPositiveNumber(...candidates: unknown[]): number | undefined {
+  for (const candidate of candidates) {
+    if (typeof candidate === "number" && Number.isFinite(candidate) && candidate > 0) {
+      return candidate;
+    }
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
 export function isAutoFetchModelsEnabled(providerSpecificData: unknown): boolean {
   return asRecord(providerSpecificData).autoFetchModels !== false;
 }
@@ -45,6 +60,23 @@ export function normalizeDiscoveredModels(models: unknown): SyncedAvailableModel
         ).sort()
       : undefined;
 
+    const topProvider = asRecord(record.top_provider);
+
+    // OpenRouter (and similar passthrough catalogs) report the context window as
+    // `context_length` / `top_provider.context_length`, not `inputTokenLimit`.
+    // Fall back across those names so synced models carry a real window instead
+    // of the provider default (128K). Explicit `inputTokenLimit` still wins. #3202
+    const inputTokenLimit = firstPositiveNumber(
+      record.inputTokenLimit,
+      record.context_length,
+      record.contextLength,
+      topProvider.context_length
+    );
+    const outputTokenLimit = firstPositiveNumber(
+      record.outputTokenLimit,
+      topProvider.max_completion_tokens
+    );
+
     deduped.set(id, {
       id,
       name,
@@ -53,12 +85,8 @@ export function normalizeDiscoveredModels(models: unknown): SyncedAvailableModel
         ? { apiFormat: toNonEmptyString(record.apiFormat)! }
         : {}),
       ...(supportedEndpoints && supportedEndpoints.length > 0 ? { supportedEndpoints } : {}),
-      ...(typeof record.inputTokenLimit === "number"
-        ? { inputTokenLimit: record.inputTokenLimit }
-        : {}),
-      ...(typeof record.outputTokenLimit === "number"
-        ? { outputTokenLimit: record.outputTokenLimit }
-        : {}),
+      ...(typeof inputTokenLimit === "number" ? { inputTokenLimit } : {}),
+      ...(typeof outputTokenLimit === "number" ? { outputTokenLimit } : {}),
       ...(typeof record.description === "string" ? { description: record.description } : {}),
       ...(record.supportsThinking === true ? { supportsThinking: true } : {}),
     });
diff --git a/tests/unit/openrouter-context-length-3202.test.ts b/tests/unit/openrouter-context-length-3202.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad3ec04895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/openrouter-context-length-3202.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+
+import { normalizeDiscoveredModels } from "@/lib/providerModels/modelDiscovery";
+
+// Regression guard for #3202.
+//
+// OpenRouter's /api/v1/models returns the context window as `context_length`
+// (and `top_provider.context_length`), NOT `inputTokenLimit`. The provider
+// discovery path (`parseResponse: (data) => data.data || []`) passes these raw
+// records straight into `normalizeDiscoveredModels`, so before the fix synced
+// OpenRouter models never carried `inputTokenLimit` and `/v1/models` fell back
+// to the 128K provider default for every model.
+
+test("#3202 maps OpenRouter context_length into inputTokenLimit", () => {
+  const [model] = normalizeDiscoveredModels([
+    { id: "deepseek/deepseek-v4", context_length: 1048576 },
+  ]);
+
+  assert.equal(model.id, "deepseek/deepseek-v4");
+  assert.equal(model.inputTokenLimit, 1048576);
+});
+
+test("#3202 preserves an explicit inputTokenLimit when already present", () => {
+  const [model] = normalizeDiscoveredModels([
+    { id: "vendor/with-explicit", inputTokenLimit: 200000, context_length: 999999 },
+  ]);
+
+  // Explicit inputTokenLimit wins over the context_length fallback.
+  assert.equal(model.inputTokenLimit, 200000);
+});
+
+test("#3202 falls back to top_provider.context_length", () => {
+  const [model] = normalizeDiscoveredModels([
+    { id: "vendor/top-provider-window", top_provider: { context_length: 262144 } },
+  ]);
+
+  assert.equal(model.inputTokenLimit, 262144);
+});
+
+test("#3202 maps OpenRouter output cap (top_provider.max_completion_tokens)", () => {
+  const [model] = normalizeDiscoveredModels([
+    {
+      id: "vendor/with-output-cap",
+      context_length: 131072,
+      top_provider: { max_completion_tokens: 32768 },
+    },
+  ]);
+
+  assert.equal(model.inputTokenLimit, 131072);
+  assert.equal(model.outputTokenLimit, 32768);
+});
+
+test("#3202 leaves inputTokenLimit unset when no window field is present", () => {
+  const [model] = normalizeDiscoveredModels([{ id: "vendor/no-window" }]);
+
+  assert.equal(model.inputTokenLimit, undefined);
+});