GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter • Hacker News Board

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by infinite_spin » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:10 AM UTC

CompoundEyes wrote: post #15

I used over a billion tokens per day of gpt-5.6 sol xhigh starting last Wednesday through Sunday before reaching my reset limit. The $200 pro plan is still the best deal.

I have mine churning like butter and I'm rarely hitting a billion tokens per day, what's your workflow look like?

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by netsec_burn » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:12 AM UTC

After using Claude for a long time, I tested Sol 5.6 for the first time today. Love it, its an incredibly capable model and uses far fewer tokens/time thinking. Its what I imagine Fable would be if I haven't been downgraded on every conversation - even after completing the verification program. I think I may cancel my Claude subscription finally.

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by kajaktum » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:13 AM UTC

m4rtink wrote: post #30

Moto7451 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would in such a scenario expect the GPUs to be dumped to industrial breakers who would send them to China for refurbishment and repackaging before being sold again on Amazon, AliExpress, and Taobao as last gen gaming cards from weird brands and specs. This is what happened after the great crypto GPU dumping.

Yeah, I ment it as a joke - I agree with you. Watched the Gamers Nexus GPU investigation recently, where they were shown how a chinese soldering shop can transplant GPU chips to a new board, including memory chip reuse. Hopefully we can look forward to all that useless datacenter AI crap gets repurposed in a similar manner into something actually useful for users.

I wouldnt be so hopeful because they dont use commodity hardware afaik How are you going to use a h100 at home?

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by ComputerGuru » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:14 AM UTC

Does OpenRouter eat this cost to get their hands on a copy of the conversations people are using with the model?

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by infinite_spin » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:16 AM UTC

dgunay wrote: post #18

I'm loving this race to the bottom.

I'm not having that experience. So far each major model update has been at least slightly better than the last, in ways I've found useful. Can't say it's perfect, or able to do exactly what I want without a decent amount of instruction/implementation/docs, but it's been useful enough to keep paying for it.

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by redox99 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:18 AM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #6

Fergusonb wrote: post #2

Luna saw a huge jump after the price cut and is one of the more competitive models at the new price on openrouter. Maybe they want to see how much market they can grab with Sol? This might help but there are already cheaper models with Sol's intelligence more or less, the most notable being Grok 4.6 at $6/m which makes it a tougher sell

Since when does Grok 4.6 have Sol 5.6's intelligence? I don't believe it.

It doesn't.

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by infinite_spin » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:18 AM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #4

Do other people find 5.6 to be worse at most simple tasks and frequently over complicate things? I asked it to write a user todo and it turned out a four page essay. I gave the same task to 5.4 and got the small list of checkboxes I expected.

I've found it's worse for simple tasks too, and I have to give it stricter guidelines, and sometimes it doesn't follow the same patterns I've grown to expect. I've found using 5.6 (sol) is good for diagnosing issues though, especially in terms of optimization of some given path

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by SJMG » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

CompoundEyes wrote: post #15

I used over a billion tokens per day of gpt-5.6 sol xhigh starting last Wednesday through Sunday before reaching my reset limit. The $200 pro plan is still the best deal.

A billion a day? How many agents are you running?

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by drdexebtjl » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #4

Do other people find 5.6 to be worse at most simple tasks and frequently over complicate things? I asked it to write a user todo and it turned out a four page essay. I gave the same task to 5.4 and got the small list of checkboxes I expected.

You would probably get better results with Luna for the real simple tasks, or Sol with low thinking effort.

I find that I get exactly the effort that I asked for, which is pretty nice. The other side of that coin is that these are the least lazy models I’ve used so far. They will go on elaborate tangents to complete the task when I want them to.

Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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Post by Razengan » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

netsec_burn wrote: post #32

After using Claude for a long time, I tested Sol 5.6 for the first time today. Love it, its an incredibly capable model and uses far fewer tokens/time thinking. Its what I imagine Fable would be if I haven't been downgraded on every conversation - even after completing the verification program. I think I may cancel my Claude subscription finally.

I recently tried Claude again after several months, to see if it was any better at something Codex has been struggling with…

They STILL don't have an option to "Sign in with Apple" on the website, but they do for Google??!? (and on iPhone of course)

Screw that asinine UX

(and no it wasn't better than Codex at this particular task)