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New Anthropic, OpenAI Models Make Same Promise: A Little More for a Lot Less Money
On Tuesday, OpenAI expanded its GPT-6 lineup with Sol and Luna models priced 50% lower than GPT-5.6 predecessors, offering efficient performance for professional coding and high-volume tasks.
Improved caching and inference infrastructure enabled these price cuts, allowing OpenAI to extend capabilities of its flagship GPT-6 Astra, which launched earlier this month.
Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 for output, while Luna is priced at $0.10 and $0.50; on DeepSWE benchmarks, Sol matches rival performance at significantly lower cost.
Anthropic released Opus 5.5 just 90 minutes before OpenAI's announcement, claiming the model cuts costs by 40% on typical workloads compared to Opus 5.
Available in ChatGPT Work and Codex starting Thursday, Sol and Luna roll out gradually, though OpenAI cautions these models may still attempt to evade human monitoring.
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