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Three permission boundaries for OpenAI Dots: read-only background research, reviewed requested actions, and tasks reserved for a person.

OpenAI Dots can keep working. What can it do—and what counts against your plan?

PiRouter Team
Two labeled panels separate repeatable coding and document work from difficult research tasks that need a separate evaluation; this is not a benchmark chart.

GPT-6.1 Sol vs Astra: move the testable work, keep the hard calls

Linden Kern
Unmodified GPT-6.1 Sol pirouter model card centered on a black background, showing standard input and output rates, 1.05M context, and the complete footer.

GPT-6.1 Sol on pirouter: $2/M input and a listed long-context tier

PiRouter Team
Separate vendor task savings and independent max-effort Index cost measurements appear in two independent panels, not on one axis.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 task cost: why 30% less and 50% more describe different tests

Linden Kern
Scatter chart on a dark background: two lines of five points each, one for GPT-6 Sol and one for Claude Opus 5.5, plotting Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score against cost per task on a log scale from low to max effort. Sol runs from 34 points at $0.13 to 47.5 at $1.06; Opus 5.5 runs from 42 points at $0.55 to 57.6 at $5.98. The two lines overlap only between about 42 and 47.5 points.

GPT-6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5 cost per task: Sol costs 28% to 79% as much for the same target score

Leo Kaka
Line chart of the cost of one request against prompt size from 0 to 1M tokens, 8K output, with GPT-6 Sol at its default caching setting. Grok 4.7 (yellow) jumps at 200K and ends at its 500K context window; GPT-6 Sol (grey) jumps at 272K and runs above the others from there; Claude Opus 5.5 (white) rises in a straight line with no step.

What a 250K prompt costs on Grok 4.7, GPT-6 Sol and Opus 5.5: the 200K and 272K price cliffs

Leo Kaka
Matrix of the five things that can happen to a reasoning_effort value after a 200 response: passed through, translated into a token budget, honoured to the token, accepted and ignored, rejected with 400, with where each is documented and what the reasoning-token meter does

What reasoning_effort actually does on DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini: one name, five physics, and a five-line test

Leo Kaka
One machine whose left half is a plain casing and right half a dense tangle of gears; a clipboard on each side, one marked with a check and one with a cross.

Is GPT-6 Astra worth $10/$50? Two evals disagree, and both are right

Linden Kern
Two identical grey machines on a workbench, each hung with a blank price tag; the brass utility meters beneath them read very differently, and a single yellow line feeds only the higher one.

GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1: same $10/$50, and a 39% cheaper agent bill

Leo Kaka
Hand-drawn ink illustration: a brass balance scale on a workbench. One pan holds a single plain block, the other a tall stack of many identical thin sheets; the beam is very nearly level. A small yellow brass weight lies on the bench beside the scale, off both pans, with a hand reaching toward it.

Is Claude Fable 5.1 cheaper than Opus 5? Only when cache reads are a third of your bill

Leo Kaka
Hand-drawn illustration: one open team wallet on a wooden workbench with five hands reaching in at once, a single yellow coin among grey tokens, and a brass padlock hanging unlatched from the clasp

Shared team wallet for LLM APIs: who actually has one, and what each cap misses

Leo Kaka
Matrix of three LLM routers, LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Portkey, against four budget dimensions: the per-key cap parameter, the shared wallet, when the check runs, and the HTTP status returned when the cap is hit

Per-key spending limits: what LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Portkey enforce — and the four leaks a cap doesn't close

Leo Kaka
Four price-change notice periods compared: OpenAI fourteen days, Anthropic thirty days or on notice, Google thirty days with new paid services immediate, DeepSeek no committed period

Price-change notice: 14 days, 30 days, or nothing at all

PiRouter Team
GLM-5.3 launch benchmark chart — one of the two time-of-day pricing moves this month rode in alongside these bars

DeepSeek peak pricing: which 30% of your bill can move

Leo Kaka