OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%


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Aug 21 (Reuters) - OpenAI ⁠said on Friday it is cutting the prices ⁠of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers ‌by more than 20% for the next three months, as the ChatGPT maker faces growing competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI ​models.

Here are more details:

• The price ⁠cuts are effective on ⁠OpenAI's application programming interface, or API, and are rolling ⁠out ‌across eligible plans for credits on its agentic AI product ChatGPT Work and its ⁠coding tool Codex, OpenAI said.

• Pricing for ​Pro, Plus and ‌Business subscriptions remains unchanged, the company said.

• GPT-5.6 ⁠Sol is ​now priced at $4 per 1 million input tokens and $20 per 1 million output tokens for standard short-context use, ⁠according to OpenAI's pricing table. That ​compares with previous prices of $5 and $30, respectively.

• OpenAI late last month slashed prices of its smaller models. It cut ⁠prices for the mid-tier GPT-5.6 Terra model by 20% and for the lower-cost Luna model by 80%.

• Anthropic lists its frontier Claude Fable 5 model at $10 ​per 1 million input tokens ⁠and $50 per 1 million output tokens, while its Claude ​Opus 5 model is listed at $5 ‌per 1 million input tokens ​and $25 per 1 million output tokens.

(Reporting by Anzar Mehraj in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)

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