Intelligence / Provider Impact

When a provider changes the rules, your bill should not surprise you.

A curated, evidence-graded changelog of provider-wide changes to prices, tokens, quotas, subscriptions, outages, models, and policy - ranked by impact so direct cost and quota changes stay ahead of the noise.

Twice-daily fetch from official feeds, status pages & community signal · impact-ranked
How it's curated

Evidence first. Noise last.

Every entry is graded, sourced, and ranked. Official changes auto-promote to canonical; a viral thread surfaces as "worth a look" until it's confirmed. Direct cost and quota changes float to the top so the things that touch your invoice never get buried under model-launch chatter.

  • Twice-daily fetch. Official feeds, provider status pages & community signal, on a schedule.
  • Isolated AI passes draft. Each candidate is turned into a schema-valid event before anything publishes.
  • Official sources auto-promote. A pricing page or changelog entry becomes canonical without a human in the loop.
  • Community signal is flagged. Unconfirmed reports surface as "worth a look," never as fact.
  • Impact-priority ranking. Cost, token-accounting and quota changes outrank everything else.
Anthropic changed Claude Code's default model Detected 2 hours ago · official changelog
NEW
Your sessions are 18% pricier.
The default routed model shifted to a higher-priced tier for interactive sessions. Same prompts, new per-token rate - Ottto already repriced your last 7 days against it.
Type pricing Confidence canonical Impact direct cost Affects Claude Code
Pin See impact →

Illustrative event card · real entries link to the source.

Feeds the Advisor

A change becomes a recommendation, not a surprise.

ottto · provider impact → advisor
Graded eventcost · canonical
Bounded rowschema-valid
Advisor KBknowledge base
Recommendationreviewed
Bounded provider-impact rows flow into the Advisor knowledge base, so a price or quota change becomes a recommendation, not a surprise on your invoice.
Open source · AI Provider Watch

The same intelligence, vendor-neutral and open.

AI Provider Watch is the open-source provider-change timeline: a machine-readable feed, CLI, and API for changes to cost, quotas, models, defaults, deprecations, and incidents. uvx ai-provider-watch, with apw validate and apw index, plus MCP resources. Ottto is the founding sponsor.

zsh - ai-provider-watch
$ uvx ai-provider-watch index --since 7d 14 events · 9 canonical · 5 worth-a-look $ apw validate events/*.json schema-valid · evidence linked $ uvx ai-provider-watch index --type pricing { "provider": "anthropic", "impact": "direct_cost", "confidence": "canonical", "source": "docs" }

Stay ahead of every provider change.

Prices move, quotas shift, defaults swap - and the impact gets tied back to your usage before the invoice becomes the first warning. Install Ottto, connect your accounts, and let Provider Impact watch the providers for you.

Free to start · no credit card · the open feed is yours to run anywhere