What happened: Introducing Toast 1

Mixedbread released Toast 1, a specialized search agent matching frontier model quality at 10x lower cost and 12x faster speed.

Why it matters: Introducing Toast 1

Engineers building agentic systems or document search need efficient retrieval without expensive frontier model inference on every query.

Toast 1 performs best with Mixedbread Search backend; performance with other retrieval systems requires testing and may vary from benchmarks.

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Mixedbread · support@mixedbread.com (Mixedbread Team) · Published August 13, 2026 · 3 min read

What happened: Mixedbread released Toast 1, a specialized search agent matching frontier model quality at 10x lower cost and 12x faster speed.
Why it matters: Engineers building agentic systems or document search need efficient retrieval without expensive frontier model inference on every query.
Watch out: Toast 1 performs best with Mixedbread Search backend; performance with other retrieval systems requires testing and may vary from benchmarks.

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