Reducing LLM Costs 50% Using Best-Execution for Intelligence
Ship is an endpoint that provides output indistinguishable from the model you're already using, at half the price. It achieves this by doing inference-time optimization with two guarantees: capability equivalence and behavioral equivalence. This allows users to either reduce costs on existing workflows or increase quality by using more intelligence with the same budget.
- ▪Ship provides output indistinguishable from the original model at half the price.
- ▪It guarantees capability equivalence and behavioral equivalence through inference-time optimization.
- ▪Users can reduce costs or increase quality with the same budget using Ship.
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| Original publisher | Thesean |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thesean.ai/blog/introducing-ship |
| Publication time | Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:50:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-21T23:06:08.142Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-21T23:06:08.142Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | cNLQknCSVdCT |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Ship is an endpoint that provides output indistinguishable from the model you're already using, at half the price.Just replace model="<original>" with model="ship-like/<original>", and all requests will be 50% less expensive. We take the risk that any individual request costs us more to execute. This allows you to either (A) reduce costs on existing workflows or (B) increase quality by using more intelligence with the same budget.We achieve this by doing inference-time optimization with two guarantees: capability equivalence and behavioral equivalence. Capability equivalence means that any problem solved by your original model will also be solved by Ship.
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