Most readers aren’t switching providers today. This newsletter is for the moment when that changes — a retention window tightens, a model gets quietly quantized, a price moves, an endpoint deprecates. We track it every week so you find out from us, not from a broken integration.
What you get
- The one thing— the week’s most important signal for a builder, why it matters, and a link to the full story.
- Price watch — the Inference Price Index delta across all tracked providers: what got cheaper, what got more expensive, one liftable number.
- Policy & trust — retention, ToS, logging, and refusal-policy changes this week, per provider, from the Provider Trust Tracker.
- New & notable — open-weight releases and infrastructure news, with where to run each model from the Open-Model Tracker.
- The monthly Refusal Index — who started refusing more (or less) this cycle, when a cycle publishes.
Every provider mentioned is treated neutrally — if an email cites prices or refusal data, Morpheus is one row among many, ranked wherever the data puts it. No cost predictions, no “switch to Morpheus” sequence, no pixel games. Reply anytime; a human reads it.