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Introducing Toast 1: Specialized Search Agent

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Toast 1, our first specialized search agent, is available today. It provides frontier search quality, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster. It performs best with Mixedbread Search, but it can work with any search backend.

Toast 1 fully takes over the search loop: given an initial query, it decomposes it into subqueries, gathers evidence, inspects sources, and curates the relevant context. This lets your agent spend its compute on the task that requires a generalist frontier-level model: reasoning, acting, and producing final answers.

In financial analysis benchmarks, GPT-5.6 Sol with Toast 1 reached 70% answer correctness at approximately $1.15 per task, establishing new state-of-the-art performance. In legal benchmarks, Toast 1 allowed agents to finish with 3.5 times fewer tokens while maintaining identical task scores. It is available immediately through the Mixedbread API.