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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

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Post by jen729w »

gb2d_hn wrote: post #206
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #199

I 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…

I switched as I felt Codex was on a par with Opus, but the chat responses from Sol are just more intelligible than the word soup I've been getting from Opus. I wonder if Opus could be prompted to respond in simpler prose via agents.md

> I wonder if Opus could be prompted to respond in simpler prose via agents.md

God knows I've tried. I've got a variant of the ASD-STE100 trick which does the job, mostly, at the start … but get to about 100k of context and it goes out the window.

The model's personality is too strong for simple suggestion, alas.

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

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Post by aurareturn »

stanac wrote: post #240
aurareturn wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenRouter margins are not 50%.

As I understand OAI is offering discount only for users using the model via OR. Not sure why. Maybe they want OR users to try the model and switch to OAI subscription or something.

Yes, but this discount must be coming from OpenAI and not Open Router.

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

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Post by bigbluedots »

oblio wrote: post #224
bigbluedots wrote: post #220

These threads seem to have become exceedingly vibes-based. Yes, something may now be cheaper or more expensive or whatever, but there is no way to objectively measure quality (except for "trust me bro" benchmarks). So the discourse is people saying that for them, this or that model was better - which is a very low value data point.

> These threads seem to have become exceedingly vibes-based. If you remember programming language discussions, they are exactly like this. Software development is still in the leeches and bloodlettings phase.

Yes, programming language discussions can be vibes-based and therefore low value too, but sometimes the more concrete aspects of the languages at hand, e.g. language features and tradeoffs are discussed. That is something that I'm not seeing in equivalent AI discussions.. there is a lot of how a particular AI model "feels" to interact with.

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

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Post by dana321 »

gxs wrote: post #122

Absolutely not I’ve used Claude exclusively for the past few months Was excited when Sol came out a few weeks ago and loaded it up I made the mistake of treating it as if it were Claude - I’d assumed they were close enough in ability and treated them that way Well, turns out my instruction sets for Claude are 100% too complicated for Sol Sol made the stupidest assumptions, constantly did things that it wasn’t asked t…

"rewrite unreal engine in rust, make no mistakes"

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

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Post by Mattrou »

not-kinsale-joe wrote: post #239
oblio wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's weird.

Why is that weird?

How is that not weird?

Has OpenAI struck a deal with openrouter and that's why we're seeing preferred pricing?

Is openrouter taking a loss on sol API calls to grow adoption?

How temporary is the reduction in price?

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

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Post by WASDx »

IshKebab wrote: post #75
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 tokens per day?? Plausible estimates put the energy use at about 0.001 Wh/token, which means you're using 1000 kWh/day in electricity, just to generate slop. That's about the same as 50-100 houses. 300kg of CO2 per day - roughly the same as flying from London to New York every three days . I think on average AI energy usage is not as big a deal as everyone is panicking about, but your usage is truly absurd…

I'm glad someone is voicing this. Overconsumption at that level is not defensible. However if they meant cached tokens so it's not that bad.

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

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Post by beacon294 »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #212
dvt wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This sure looks like a race to the bottom Always has been. My prediction is that both OpenAI and Claude will go bust unless they deliver a killer product. And unlike scrappy startups, they have a pretty serious deadline because creditors will come a-knockin'. There's little to no functional difference between Kimi, Qwen, Sol, Opus, etc. All flagship models are within like 1-5% of each other and the real moat will b…

> All flagship models are within like 1-5% of each other Don't know about that. I'm using code review of my lone lisp project as a benchmark. It's a massive parallel code review where a coordinator cuts up the codebase into sections and dispatches agents to consider each part from different perspectives like quality, maintainability, consistency, correctness, rigor, etc. Ran a complete Fable/max code review. Took ove…

Check the remainder for hallucination for sure.

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

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Post by kolinko »

IshKebab wrote: post #75
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 tokens per day?? Plausible estimates put the energy use at about 0.001 Wh/token, which means you're using 1000 kWh/day in electricity, just to generate slop. That's about the same as 50-100 houses. 300kg of CO2 per day - roughly the same as flying from London to New York every three days . I think on average AI energy usage is not as big a deal as everyone is panicking about, but your usage is truly absurd…

That’s for i/o tokens, mostly output. 90-98% is cache read usually, so you can divide electricity use by 10 at least.

As for co2, it depends on the provider, it could be way lower as well.

As for ethics, you don’t know what he works on, and how effectively - he might be saving 10x that much of co2 for the planet.

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