Given the current changes (or at least clarity) that restrict usage of newer / more expensive / capable models for LTD / Gold users: what is the policy on future models?
Will early adopters be locked into the ones that are available now (and that we signed up for initially)?
Or will we be able to use our own API Key to access newer, more expensive but also more capable models in the future?
(while we of course pay for that extra usage and it wouldn’t incur any cost to pickaxe)
If there will be no access to newer models, that would put an expiry date on the usefulness of Pickaxe for anyone who can’t/doesn’t want to upgrade to Pro. Why would we continue to invest time and build tools if they will be running on outdated models in the not so far future without any chance of updating them?
All LTDs are connected to the Gold tier. So whatever the Gold tier gets, the LTDs will follow suit.
The Gold tier will continue to get new models as we add them. In the last few months we’ve added several new models to the Gold tier, such as DeepSeek, o3 mini, o1. Whenever it makes sense economically to add a new model to Gold, we will do so.
Thanks for the quick reply and that is a partial relief, was getting worried.
Still hope that you reconsider and open model-use when using our own API keys, but I guess I made that clear
(personally I’d much rather not get any monthly credits at all but have free choice of the model and pay my own bill for whatever usage I see on my pickaxes)
Jakoba’s message is precisely what I feel, what happens to the usefulness of the LTD, because mind you, the LTD is like paying a year up front and seeing it’s value diminish in 3 months is disheartening. Nevertheless I’m glad you’ve given some response to this Mike.
Like the rest, I care more about being able to use the latest and most powerful models and bring my own keys than the free credits. The 1000 credits are only useful if you can use it on the expensive models, for most models we’re using the mini version anyway and they are dirt cheap.
