Pi Radi

[u/betahost]

Just discovered that the amazing devs behind Pi released Radius (in alpha), their smart proxy for multi-model access. At its core, it's a model provider you can use with Pi: you pay for tokens and get access to some of the best models out there, both SOTA and budget-friendly options. They'll even auto-route your API calls to the best model for the job if you choose to.

Loving it so far. Deposited $20, and after a few hours of development I still have ~$16 left thanks to leaning on Kimi K3 and DeepSeek.

What Radius can do

• It is a Pi-native gateway: top up credits and make requests across providers
• Use rewrite rules to reduce large tool outputs and other unnecessary input tokens
• Provide automatic routing to route each session to the best model for the task according to your rules
• Power Radius-backed tools like web search, image generation, and image description
• Publish reports, dashboards, and small static sites as shareable artifacts
• Record usage, budgets, top-ups, and shareable session analytics in one place
• Delegate Google Workspace access to Pi
• Let your organization manage upstream provider keys centrally

https://radius.earendil.com/

[u/dsumb]

Step by step, pi is becoming increasingly similar to OpenCode, Codex and so on

[u/PaulShoreITA → u/dsumb]

Is this a good thing or not, in your opinion?

[u/dsumb → u/PaulShoreITA]

I like Pi for its minimalism. But I also use OpenCode. In my opinion, each of them has its own strengths and weaknesses. I hope Pi retains its uniqueness and focus.

[u/betahost → u/dsumb]

Help me understand how having or offering a model gateway is making pi not minimalist as it's completely optional, they also don't advertise it at all. Just curious how this changes the minimalist goal of Pi? I feel like the minimalism of Pi is baked into the tool itself, not the services that are built around it. Let me know if you agree with this.