Pricing endpoint returns 503 - all sessions show unverified_live_pricing

[alitvak69]

Summary

Cost display stopped working after upgrading from 0.8.67 to 0.9.3. Every turn across every provider is unpriced with unpriced_reasons = ["unverified_live_pricing"].

Evidence

Session cost data (three different providers/routes, all identical)

metadata.cost:
  session_cost_usd     = 0.0
  priced_turns         = 0
  unpriced_turns       = 7
  unpriced_reasons     = ["unverified_live_pricing"]
  cny_unpriced_reasons = ["unverified_live_pricing"]

Routes tested:

• accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (fireworks)
• accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k3 (fireworks)
• deepseek-v4-flash (opencode-zen)

All produce the same unverified_live_pricing — no priced turns ever.

Root cause

The pricing/session endpoint returns 503 Service Unavailable:

$ curl -s https://api.codewhale.net/session
{
  "ok": false,
  "status": "needs_setup",
  "blocker": "full_control_plane_runtime_not_attached",
  "error": {
    "code": "control_plane_not_attached",
    "message": "This Codewhale control-plane route is not attached to the edge auth pilot yet."
  }
}

The service is alive but the Cloudflare Workers control-plane routing isn't connected — every pricing request hits this 503, the tool falls through to "no usable bundled rate", and every turn is recorded as unpriced.

Supporting observations

• The models.dev catalog (fetched today) contains 283 models but zero pricing fields — the catalog is capabilities-only in its current schema.
• The binary has no bundled rate for any of the deployment-style route IDs used, so the fallback always activates.
• The binary is current (v0.9.3), checked with update --check — no newer release.
• Machine has full internet connectivity: DNS resolves, TLS succeeds, but the endpoint returns 503.

Expected behavior

The pricing endpoint should return valid rates (or the tool should have a bundled fallback for common routes) so that session cost displays correctly in the TUI.

Environment

• codewhale version: 0.9.3 (c98648b)
• previous version (cost worked): 0.8.67
• OS: Linux x86_64
• Provider config: fireworks + opencode-zen, tried multiple model IDs

[github-actions]

Thanks @alitvak69 for the report.

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[Hmbown]

thank you for reporting this!! let me take a look at this and make sure it's working properly ..... to be honest, pricing has been a challenge for me to keep up to date and accurate!