What is new for you this week: easier sign-in, clearer models, safer logs

Signing in from a new device, and creating a new account, now complete every step. Before this, some people got stuck partway through. If that was you, please try again.

The header also has a plain **Sign in** link. It opens the sign-in window on the page you are on, so you do not lose your place.

You can donate a free provider key to the shared Pool and earn credit for it. The dialog now shows the keys you already gave and opens where you are.

A key with $0 balance is no longer refused if it can still serve free models. You can share it as free only. When a key cannot be shared, you now get the reason and the next step, not a generic error.

The Pool page now shows every provider with how much traffic it saw this week, and marks the ones with a free tier. Models the Pool serves at $0 are labelled free on the models page, including ones that do not end in :free.

The models page now says what it counts. It shows how many models you can call today and how many more need your own provider key. One click shows them.

Every model now says how it is billed: from your **credits**, **free**, or with **your key**. The same label is in the API as pricing.billing, so your code can read it. See the models API.

The newest list leads with models you can call. The kind tabs wrap on phones instead of sliding sideways. The filters are simpler, with price, speed and release date in the same filter groups as the rest.

The BYOK page is denser. You see your Pool status in one line, fewer divider lines, and more providers on a wide screen. Model pages that need your key say so in plain words and have one clear **Add your key** action.

New this week: perplexity/pplx-embed-v1-4b, an embedding model you can use with your own Respan key. Read how it works in the BYOK docs.

If you ask for an anyrouter/ model name that does not exist, the request now goes to anyrouter/auto instead of failing. Add :free and it goes to the free route. Your original name stays in your request log. See routing.

Laguna XS 2.1 now moves to the next provider after 20 seconds of silence, not 36. When a provider hangs, your answer arrives sooner.

A cached answer now gets its own response id and time. Before, two requests could share one id, which made tracing hard. Caching is described in response caching.

Our server logs now hide credentials inside error messages too, such as a key that a provider repeats back in its error text. We already hid fields named like secrets. This closes the gap where a key appeared inside plain text.

Each use case with a film now plays it on the page. Nothing loads from the video site until you press play. The home page footer also lists our latest posts and news.