# Laminar — flow-1: Frontier trace intelligence at 1/20th of the cost

- Company: Laminar (laminar.sh)
- Announced: 2026-10-02
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://laminar.sh/blog/flow-1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16847-flow-1-frontier-trace-intelligence-at-1-20th-of-the-cost
- Subject: flow / agent observability
- Models affected: flow-1, GPT-6-sol

Laminar introduced flow-1, a model trained with reinforcement learning to understand agent traces and identify hard-to-spot failures. On the company's benchmark, flow-1 matches GPT-6-sol in detection quality while being 23x cheaper. It runs inside the Signals agent, which treats a trace as a repo and returns structured JSON following the user's schema.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://laminar.sh/blog/flow-1:

> On our benchmark, it matches GPT-6-sol in detection quality while being 23x cheaper.

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