OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Pricing Up To 80%, As AI Costs Come Under Scrutiny
- On Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced major price cuts for the GPT-5.6 series, slashing Luna model costs by 80% and Terra by 20% while adding a premium Fast mode for Sol.
- The company introduced Sol Fast mode to deliver up to 2.5 times the throughput without sacrificing model intelligence, pricing it at twice the standard rate for latency-sensitive workloads.
- These cuts arrive days after Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 and Google introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash, both targeting lower inference costs and efficient agent workloads in an intensifying market.
- EMARKETER senior analyst Jacob Bourne said the announcement signals that "the era of tokenmaxxing is over," as enterprises increasingly push back against rising AI bills.
- Industry leaders stress cost efficiency as paramount; AI coding startup Cognition noted GPT-5.6 now "sits on the pareto curve of price/performance efficiency," reflecting broader market priorities.
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OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Price by 80% as Chinese Models Close In
OpenAI on Thursday reduced the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, three weeks after launching the model, according to the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm. Luna, a speed-focused model, now costs 20 cents per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, down from $1 and $6, the company said. OpenAI also cut its mid-tier GPT-5.6 Terra price by 20%, to $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tok…
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