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GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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

#41
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.

GP means race to the bottom in price not quality.

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

#42

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'm also in Anthropic Cyber Verification Program, but they specifically exclude Fable, just goes up to Opus 5.

I hear you on the downgrades, I'm 13/13 on downgrades, and last downgraded me to Sonnet for asking for reasoning chain.

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

#43
post #14

The title looks to be misleading, since this price cut is limited to OpenRouter. It does not apply for the native OpenAI price listed at https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol

Which raises the question - who is subsidizing this, and why?

OpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions.

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

#44
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.

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

#45

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?

Some people just do crazy stuff. For example this now ex yc guy who said he has agents constantly scanning Sf govt apis and forming dashboards just because

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

#46

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 spent $800 in a few hours when my sub maxed out because I was trying to get something done and had a long car ride to let it churn.

Their api pricing is absurdly expensive.

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

#47

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.

Fable is still the best there is. Sol close second but I find it gets way to stuck on details.

Also Opus 5 is fine if your codebase is simple.

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

#49

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.

I do have free sol and cursor ultra for 200 I prefer grok over sol, they are equally capable but grok is faster
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