OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API price by 20%
GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
OpenAI has reduced the price of its GPT-5.6 Sol model by 20%, bringing input costs to $4 per million tokens and output to $20 per million tokens. The frontier model, which handles complex professional work, now offers a 1,050,000-token context window and supports reasoning efforts from none to max. The price cut aims to make advanced AI more accessible to developers.
GPT-5.6 Sol is the frontier model in the GPT-5.6 family, roughly corresponding to the unsuffixed model tier used in earlier GPT-5 families.
- gr_norm
Even if you don't want to use open models, you should cheer for them anyway because it puts the American frontier labs' feet to the flames. This competition is awesome for us consumers.
- JSR_FDED
Or put differently, when lobbying doesn’t make you competitive you have to lower your prices.
- returnInfinity
This is a play to grab market share from Claude, But it seems Claude code is too strong of a brand
Until the IT managers and CFOs cut budget hard, Claude will live rent free in heads of all developers
OpenAI should attack the CIO and CFOs stat
At my company we have unlimited codex and claude, still people stick to gimped claude code
- albatross79
They really need to start marketing a new series of models specifically for coding. Even if it's the same model underneath, just call it something else and make it sound like some turbo coder that can run circles around claude and make it 50% cheaper for businesses. I don't have any love for openai but I don't want anthropic running away with it either, and it's clear heavy AI use is going to be in coding. Consumer use is shallow. They're trying to be Apple, and it's not working.
- johnnyApplePRNG
discounting your most valuable model 20% today without a better model in the wing ...
pushing your API subscriber base towards a competitor with an exclusive 50%, openrouter, the other day ...
slashing paying codex subscriber usage limits to the point that many are cancelling long term contracts they've had with the company ...
is altman playing 4d chess or something I'm not aware of?
because from the outside, each of these moves looks pretty bad on the face of it