# Mixedbread Releases a Search-Only Model It Says Matches Frontier Retrieval at a Fraction of the Cost

Toast 1 takes over the whole search loop inside an agent, and the German startup claims up to ten times lower cost and twelve times lower latency than general frontier models.

- Published: 2026-09-02T06:20:39.906Z
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The German search startup Mixedbread released Toast 1, an agent that takes over the entire retrieval loop. Given a query, it decomposes the request into subqueries, gathers evidence, inspects sources, and hands a curated context back to whi…

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