This release includes 2 breaking changes for platform teams planning a safe upgrade.
✓ No known CVEs patched in this version
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Summary
AI summaryAdds Kimi K3, updates the high‑end model list, and makes gpt-5.6-terra the new default model.
Full changelog
Adds Kimi K3 and the models the gateway serves that we didn't, and rebuilds MODEL_TIERS against the live catalogue.
A retired model ID does not fail
That's why the tiers had rotted invisibly. The gateway silently aliases a dead ID onto something else:
nvidia/llama-4-maverick→200 OK, body says"model": "nvidia/gpt-oss-120b"moonshot/kimi-k2.6→ still returns a402price quote- only a wholly unknown ID
400s
So "the tier works" was never evidence the tier was correct. 8 dead IDs had accumulated across 6 tiers, quietly routing to models nobody chose.
What's new
- Kimi K3 —
$3/$15, 1M ctx, vision + reasoning + coding →balanced,reasoning,coding. Supersedes the retired k2.x line. - The current high end —
gpt-5.6-sol/terra,claude-sonnet-5,claude-fable-5,grok-4.5/4.3/build-0.1,qwen3.7-max,deepseek-v4-pro(frontier-class reasoning at$0.435/$0.87),minimax-m3,glm-5.2/5.1. - Default model is now
gpt-5.6-terra— newer line, 1M context, and half the price of the outgoinggpt-5.5default.
What was broken
- The
freetier was 4/5 retired. Free calls were being served by models nobody picked. Rebuilt from the$0models actually listed. - Listed ≠ alive.
nvidia/mistral-large-3-675bis in the catalogue at$0and hangs — no response, no error, >90s, reproduced twice. It had landed atfree[0]on the first pass, where it would stall everymode:"free"call before the loop could fall through. Excluded. - The tool description advertised tiers that no longer existed — it told the model
codingmeant "GLM-5 first" whencoding[0]had beenclaude-opus-4.8for several releases.
Budget gate — verified, not assumed
The new $180/M and $168/M models raise whether the $20/M frontier reserve still covers the worst case. It does; the gateway quotes sublinearly — gpt-5.4-pro at 128k max_tokens quotes $2.42 against a $2.56 reserve. Headroom is only ~5%, so the constant was left alone rather than guessed at.
Verification
169/169 tests · typecheck · build · verify:prices 20/20 exact · stdio smoke test 19 tools · all 49 tier IDs validated against live GET /v1/models.
Breaking Changes
- Default model changed from `gpt-5.5` to `gpt-5.6-terra`
- `free` tier rebuilt; previously contained four retired models
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