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 coverage found page or fact movement below the maintained threshold.
- Last check
- 2026-10-17T02:34:58.670867+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
- not_crossed
- Consequence
- Keep the current production vendor mix and carry the changed fact into the next routing review.
- Source owner
- model vendors and their first-party documentation
Owned sources
- OpenAI API pricing monitor:openai:pricing Last checked 2026-10-17T02:34:58.670867+00:00 ok · 61 maintained facts · threshold not_crossed
- Anthropic pricing monitor:anthropic:pricing Last checked 2026-10-17T02:34:58.670867+00:00 ok · 26 maintained facts · threshold not_crossed
- GitHub changelog monitor:github:changelog Last checked 2026-10-17T02:34:58.670867+00:00 ok · 6 maintained facts · threshold not_crossed
Decision history
- 2026-10-17T02:34:58.670867+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.
- 2026-10-17T01:53:57.543835+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.
- 2026-10-17T01:46:18.958333+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.
- 2026-10-17T01:38:21.322159+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.
- 2026-10-17T01:32:37.769913+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.
- 2026-10-17T00:56:44.655098+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.
- 2026-10-17T00:48:37.626496+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was irrelevant. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-10-17T00:40:38.709016+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-10-17T00:33:24.121923+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.
- 2026-10-16T23:55:33.771055+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.
- 2026-10-16T23:47:30.439332+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.
- 2026-10-16T23:39:33.941360+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.
- 2026-10-16T23:33:31.521624+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.
- 2026-10-16T22:57:49.462238+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.
- 2026-10-16T22:49:42.278090+00:00 irrelevant Compared against the prior state of this decision: was below-threshold watch. Complete coverage found no decision-relevant semantic movement.
- 2026-10-16T22:41:26.209040+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.
- 2026-10-16T22:35:40.062629+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.
- 2026-10-16T21:58:25.976452+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.
- 2026-10-16T21:50:05.644754+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.
- 2026-10-16T21:41:46.705092+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
- GitHub changelog 2026-10-16T01:15:17.237776+00:00 Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November copilot deprecation_date: not present → Oct.15 Retired Permanent receipt
Raw canonical artifact: model_vendor_watch.json. Monitoring is advisory — it records what the owned sources said, and never blocks publishing.
Get an email when a maintained threshold crosses
Free. We send a change alert only when a first-party price, deprecation date, or licence term moves for a model carrying production traffic — not when a vendor page reflows.