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Toast 1 Review — Mixedbread's Specialized Search Agent Matches Opus 5 and Sol at 10x Lower Cost
Toast 1 is Mixedbread's first specialized search agent: frontier search quality matching or beating Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 10x lower cost and 12x higher speed. On Databricks' OfficeQA Pro V2, GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex with Toast 1 hits 70% answer correctness at ~$1.15-1.20 per task — the best score in the benchmark at a fraction of the cost of the previous Pareto frontier (Claude Fable 5 on Genie: 60% at ~$4). Launch pricing: $0.30/$0.72 per 1M tokens (40% off), $1 per 1K search queries. Review covers the benchmark claims, how it fits in retrieval stacks, and the HN reaction to specialized search models.