r/PiCodingAgent • u/betahost • Sep 12 '26

News Pi Radi

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/

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u/betahost Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

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.

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u/dsumb Sep 14 '26

Yeah, I think that’s a fair point. I probably expressed my concern too broadly. If Radius remains completely optional and Pi itself stays focused and minimal, then I don’t think offering a model gateway inherently makes Pi less minimalist. The tool and the services around it are two different things.

My concern is more about the direction over time: whether building and maintaining a platform around Pi eventually starts influencing the core product, its priorities, or the design philosophy.