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Holy, Ship endpoint is performing similarly to Opus 4.8 at 50% lower cost That's the pitch behind Ship, the endpoint Thesean is launching. You keep the model you're already calling, put ship-like/ in front of its name, and pay a fixed 50% less while it targets the same capabilities and behavior. What makes it interesting to me is the quality floor behind it. There's a public SLO that measures how much capability is retained and how far the outputs drift from the reference model. The outputs are distributionally indistinguishable, not identical token for token. If inference is a real cost center for you, this is worth an afternoon.
Announcing Ship: an endpoint with the highest intelligence per dollar of any frontier model. Today, Ship makes using Opus and GPT 5.6 Sol 50% cheaper guaranteed by a quality SLA.
Thesean just launched Ship in beta, an endpoint that cuts your LLM bill in half. You keep the model name you already use. Change model="original" to model="ship-like/original" and every request costs a fixed 50% less. Ship is built to preserve your prompts, output formats, and tool behavior. Behind the scenes, Ship picks the most efficient way to run each request while matching the quality of the model you named. If a request costs more to execute than you paid, Thesean covers the difference. The savings can go two ways. Cut the bill, or keep the same budget and run twice as many agents, retries, and verification passes to further improve output quality.
Announcing Ship: an endpoint with the highest intelligence per dollar of any frontier model. Today, Ship makes using Opus and GPT 5.6 Sol 50% cheaper guaranteed by a quality SLA.