{"id":147720,"date":"2026-08-21T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/147720\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:59:14","slug":"openai-cuts-developer-pricing-for-frontier-gpt-5-6-sol-model-by-more-than-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/147720\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Aug 21 (Reuters) &#8211; OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier \u200cGPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than \u200c20% for the next three months, as the ChatGPT maker \u200bfaces growing competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI models.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Here are more details:  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 The price cuts are effective on OpenAI&#8217;s application programming interface, or API, and are rolling \u200cout across eligible \u2060plans for credits on its agentic <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"no-affiliate-link link\">AI<\/a> product ChatGPT Work and its coding tool \u2060Codex, OpenAI said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 Pricing for Pro, Plus and Business subscriptions remains unchanged, the company said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 GPT-5.6 Sol \u200bis now \u200bpriced at $4 per 1 \u200bmillion input tokens and $20 \u200cper 1 million output tokens for standard short-context use, according to OpenAI&#8217;s pricing table. That compares with previous prices of $5 and $30, respectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 OpenAI late last month slashed prices of its smaller models. It cut prices \u200cfor the mid-tier GPT-5.6 Terra \u200bmodel by 20% and for \u200bthe lower-cost Luna \u200bmodel by 80%.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 Anthropic lists its frontier \u200cClaude Fable 5 model at $10 \u200bper 1 \u200bmillion input tokens and $50 per 1 million output tokens, while its Claude Opus 5 model is \u200blisted at $5 \u200cper 1 million input tokens and $25 per 1 \u200bmillion output tokens.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by Anzar Mehraj in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Leroy Leo)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 21 (Reuters) &#8211; OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier \u200cGPT-5.6 Sol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24405,157],"class_list":["post-147720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-application-programming-interface","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}