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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 unreal6 »

beacon294 wrote: post #248
matheusmoreira wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

check all for verifiability

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

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pimeys wrote: post #306
eru wrote: post #295

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> And these models are not going away, nor their prices going up [...] Well, DeepSeek just raised prices.

And Fireworks did not yet. They are still under the limit of not feasible to self host... Let's see if other providers follow DeepSeek with their flash pricing.

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

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Post by pimeys »

hacompanian wrote: post #396
pimeys wrote: post #278

The competition is real in pricing. Thanks for the Chinese open models, US big players have to cut their inference pricing. We've done a bunch of evals between the models, and Kimi K3 was the first one that actually could compete or be even better than Opus or Sol in our use cases, with a fraction of the price. All our developers use K3 as their programming model, and it now powers a big part of our systems instead o…

Not including Grok/Cursor seems a major flaw in your model

Oh we did try to get Grok for evals but they had some weird EU limitations last time we checked. Which the open weight models don't have.

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

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Post by m101 »

johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #362
m101 wrote: post #360

I think what is going on here is that OpenAI are employing price differentiation to capture more of the market. The captive API customers are already there. There are bunch of potential customers that are price sensitive and are at openrouter. This move allows them to capture more of the market and increase profits (yes, they might be increasing profits at this level)

You don't just jump from model to model on openrouter because somebody slashed prices, though. People actually have to select and want to use Sol 5.6 in their routing.

Perhaps not most but surely some, and in the future perhaps increasingly easily.

I’d have thought that even today people would validate a number of models for certain tasks and on a daily basis go for the cheapest provider when they run that task.

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

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Post by pimeys »

pimeys wrote: post #306
eru wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And these models are not going away, nor their prices going up [...] Well, DeepSeek just raised prices.

And Fireworks did not yet. They are still under the limit of not feasible to self host... Let's see if other providers follow DeepSeek with their flash pricing.

They did now. Landing somewhere between Terra and Luna now per task, with the quality of Gemini 3.7 flash.

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

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Post by sdesol »

podgorniy wrote: post #268
londons_explore wrote: post #253

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Doesn't seem like a smart business move. You're literally encouraging someone else to come in and steal your customer base,

This imbalance of exchange means that OpenAI is getting something from this deal. Question what is exactly.

I think being able to A/B test price is invaluable for them. They can't cut prices by 50% and hike it again. By letting others slash the price, they can tell if it is worth it or not to do this officially.

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

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Post by stillpointlab »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #186
stillpointlab wrote: post #184

I like to see this. I still prefer Fable (marginally) but my last big task was 100% Codex using Sol max (re-sizing my AWS infrastructure using CDK) and it did a very good job. No complaints, I could use this model happily to do what I need to get done. If this nudges Anthropic to give me more Fable usage, that's even better.

> my last big task was 100% Codex using Sol max (re-sizing my AWS infrastructure using CDK) Fwiw, you could do this with any small or medium model, and it's easier with the aws-docs mcp. AWS is pretty stable, well documented, and programmatic, so most AI can figure out what it needs pretty quick

I'm not claiming an eval on what is or isn't possible. Rather I am stating my satisfaction with what I actually used and the actual result I obtained.

What I can say is that over the course of ~1 week I was able to review, plan, implement, test and release a significant change to a production system using Code Sol max. Any other claim about how any other model might have completed the same task is outside of my experience.

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Post by skohan »

LinXitoW wrote: post #381
skohan wrote: post #182

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This is a big part of the reason I went local-only. Subscription limits are horrible for having a decent workflow.

There's no universe in which just buying a second or a larger subscription isn't a billion times better and cheaper than any kind of comparable local workflow. Privacy, experimenting with ML and "unorthodox" needs are currently the only acceptable reasons to do local.

Well I wouldn't say a billion times better. I've actually been having a surprising amount of success working with local models. And my investment has only been the equivalent of 4 months of a Max x20 subscription.

Experimentation and privacy are definitely advantages, but it's also quite a lot of fun.

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

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Post by gxs »

dana321 wrote: post #244
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"

That’s exactly what I did! How’d you know?

Didn’t mean to make you upset sorry

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