Model-vendor decision watch
The first-party pricing, deprecation, and licence sources behind Debug the Hype's production model-vendor decision — checked on a published cadence, with a public receipt for every check.
Current decision
model_vendor_choice — active.
Complete registered-source coverage found a threshold-crossing change affecting Opus 4.1.
- Last check
- 2026-09-16T19:15:06.748819+00:00
- Cadence
- Every 6 hours plus the daily run
- Threshold
- A first-party price, deprecation date, or licence restriction changes for a model carrying production traffic.
- Threshold result
- crossed
- Consequence
- Reassess the production vendor mix against the changed primary-vendor fact.
- Source owner
- model vendors and their first-party documentation
Owned sources
- OpenAI API pricing monitor:openai:pricing Last checked 2026-09-16T19:15:06.748819+00:00 ok · 60 maintained facts · threshold not_crossed
- Anthropic pricing monitor:anthropic:pricing Last checked 2026-09-16T19:15:06.748819+00:00 ok · 22 maintained facts · threshold crossed Receipt
- GitHub changelog monitor:github:changelog Last checked 2026-09-16T19:15:06.748819+00:00 ok · 6 maintained facts · threshold not_crossed
Decision history
- 2026-09-16T19:15:06.748819+00:00 threshold-crossing movement Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete registered-source coverage found a threshold-crossing change affecting Opus 4.1. Receipt
- 2026-09-16T13:21:04.808396+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-16T07:15:04.484545+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-16T01:15:04.550465+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-15T19:15:04.639783+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-15T13:26:40.275404+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-15T07:15:05.483822+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-15T01:15:04.618170+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-14T19:57:40.612097+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-14T18:04:27.211462+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-14T17:57:33.111782+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-14T17:49:47.689282+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was incomplete coverage. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold. Receipt
- 2026-09-14T00:21:26.757616+00:00 incomplete coverage Compared against the prior state of this decision: was incomplete coverage. Coverage is incomplete for: monitor:openai:pricing, monitor:anthropic:pricing, monitor:github:changelog.
- 2026-09-13T01:15:04.096920+00:00 incomplete coverage Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Coverage is incomplete for: monitor:openai:pricing, monitor:anthropic:pricing, monitor:github:changelog.
- 2026-09-12T13:14:23.928335+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-12T07:15:05.901445+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was threshold-crossing movement. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-09-12T01:15:04.977964+00:00 threshold-crossing movement Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete registered-source coverage found a threshold-crossing change affecting gpt-rosalind-research. Receipt
- 2026-09-11T19:15:04.147857+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-11T14:15:25.515773+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- 2026-09-11T07:15:04.271089+00:00 below-threshold watch Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
Permanent receipts
- Anthropic pricing 2026-09-16T19:15:06.748819+00:00 Opus 4.1 input_price: $15 / MTok → not present; Opus 4.1 output_price: $75 / MTok → not present Permanent receipt
- GitHub changelog 2026-09-14T17:49:47.689282+00:00 Configure cost and quality in Copilot auto model selection copilot availability: not present → Sep.14 Release Permanent receipt
- OpenAI API pricing 2026-09-12T01:15:04.977964+00:00 gpt-rosalind-research cached_input_price: not present → $0.50; gpt-rosalind-research input_price: not present → $5.00; gpt-rosalind-research output_price: not present → $25.00 Permanent receipt
- OpenAI API pricing 2026-09-10T19:15:05.954971+00:00 gpt-live-1 price: not present → $0.05 Permanent receipt
- OpenAI API pricing 2026-09-08T19:15:03.810444+00:00 gpt-image-2.5-flare cached_input_price: not present → $2.00; gpt-image-2.5-flare input_price: not present → $8.00; gpt-image-2.5-flare output_price: not present → $30.00 Permanent receipt
Raw canonical artifact: model_vendor_watch.json. Monitoring is advisory — it records what the owned sources said, and never blocks publishing.
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