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Ship

Reducing LLM Costs 50% Using Best-Execution for Intelligence

Ship is a beta LLM inference endpoint/API from Thesean AI that acts as a drop-in replacement for supported reference models by prefixing model names with `ship-like/`. It optimizes each request at inference time across execution methods to preserve the reference model's capability and behavior while reducing LLM cost by about 50%.

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releasePRIMARY2026-07-21

Martian launches Ship beta with 50% lower-cost inference target

Martian launched Ship, a beta endpoint that sits between an app and its reference model and routes each request through cheaper paths while aiming to preserve behavior. Martian says the beta targets 50% lower cost.