OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%
OpenAI has reduced developer pricing for its GPT-5.6 Sol model by over 20% to remain competitive against rivals like Anthropic. The price cuts apply to API usage for various services, though subscription costs for end-users remain unchanged.
Why it matters
The move reflects the intensifying price war in the generative AI sector as companies compete for developer adoption and market share.
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.
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.
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