Since it's only discounted on the standard "OpenAI," non-ZDR route (old pricing on Azure), I'm guessing a lot of users won't see this benefit? Since a lot of users enable a global "ZDR-only" toggle on OR
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
#192This sure looks like a race to the bottom to me, and I love it. If Sol isn't the best model, it is up there... You don't cut the price of the best model for no reason...
The lower the merrier.
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#193This sure looks like a race to the bottom to me, and I love it. If Sol isn't the best model, it is up there... You don't cut the price of the best model for no reason...
If you believe https://artificialanalysis.ai/
This is basically undercutting KimiK3 and Grok 4.6 where previously utilised gad soke advantages but was a step more expensive
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#194Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#195Does this mean less subscription credit usage as well?
It just looks like OpenRouter is doing a 50% sale on some models right now? Until OpenAI makes an announcement, I would assume no.
OpenRouter doesn't do sales, they charge a premium, which is a flat 5.5% taken out of your credits. If you see something cheap on OpenRouter, it's because that one provider lowered its price. (Actually, correction, they will take 0.5% off their fee if you allow them to train your content)
Here are all the providers giving discounts: https://openrouter.ai/collections/discounted-models
Another thing some people don't notice is flex pricing, which is way lower than default pricing, for slightly worse latency and reliability. Depends on the provider and model
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#196Where is the official source for this?
OpenAI's docs still show non-discounted pricing https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#197After 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 think Fable's dominance is overstated. It definitely has the lead, but quantifying what that lead actually is is really hard. I'm using GPT 5.6 Sol to do some shit that I personally would consider "crazy" - low level undocumented hardware driver alchemy, reverse engineering highly obfuscated code, even a bit of screwing around with a rendering engine in Vulkan, really just about the most complex tasks I can get any…
AI-pilled obsession with "taste" is bordering on insanity
It's just vibes
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Fable's dominance is overstated. It definitely has the lead, but quantifying what that lead actually is is really hard. I'm using GPT 5.6 Sol to do some shit that I personally would consider "crazy" - low level undocumented hardware driver alchemy, reverse engineering highly obfuscated code, even a bit of screwing around with a rendering engine in Vulkan, really just about the most complex tasks I can get any…
I feel like those examples are considered difficult because they're niche topics, but aren't actually all that difficult in a general sense. What I consider truly difficult are things like taking a ticket and implementing it in a preexisting codebase, using a clean and reasonable design that fits the existing style and makes sense to a human, and avoids the footguns I learned by working with the codebase for over a d…
This is true in some sense.
Getting the AI to output code that you like is difficult.
As an example, let's say in React you have a "useLocale()" hook.
The AI will happily pass down locale as a prop to 5 child components instead of just calling the hook in the component.
A review from another model did not flag such stylistic issues either.
I believe that the latest models are very good at functionally achieving the goal, but still have poor taste for UX or code quality.
The most productive use of AI for software development happens in an environment where you do not review the code but test the UX end to end.
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#199I have switched to Chagpt sub now after only using Claude for coding. You get more value for your money and feels like codex has reached Claude code performance in coding (the reason for using Claude) regular plus account allows you to have access to their most powerful model, image generation and asking questions is better because you can use sol but in instant mode and it feels smarter and faster.
And finally codex usage limits are better than the Claude daily 5h limit.
And codex feels faster although Claude code had more features
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Mai-Code-1.1-Flash seems like a really good cooperative player to GPT 5.6 Sol. You get Sol to help you make a detailed plan, and Mai codes it up and you can get pretty decent code out the other end without too many tokens if you are careful.
Why wouldn’t you use Luna for that? It’s super cheap.
Taste I suppose?