GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction • Hacker News Board

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by downrightmike » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:23 AM UTC

ReptileMan wrote: post #4

If deepseek operate on 80% margins as some suggested, this means that OpenAI reduced theirs from 1600% to 1200%.

Yeah, if they didn't buy up all the ram and ssd's, they would have imploded.. maybe they should have stayed public benefit/open after all...

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by Cu3PO42 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:24 AM UTC

millsau wrote: post #9

I would give it a try over opus if they discount was passed onto openrouter.

It’s currently 50% off on OpenRouter even.

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by applfanboysbgon » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:24 AM UTC

millsau wrote: post #9

I would give it a try over opus if they discount was passed onto openrouter.

OpenRouter is already offering Sol at a 50% promotional discount. https://openrouter.ai/collections/discounted-models

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by gentlewater » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:25 AM UTC

Immediately checked [GitHub copilot](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...) to see if I can actually afford to use sol at work now, and see it listed at 2/10, which is less than Terra. An error, maybe?

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by mrtesthah » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC

virgildotcodes wrote: post #5

Does this mean a commensurate increase in subscription usage limits?

Their X post[1] indicated that they've been trying to combat reselling subscription plans via token API gateways and at the same time many, many people, myself included, have seen a drastic drop in available weekly capacity for the same amount of queries/tokens, all else being equal. So they may be trying to make subscriptions and API access more equal to each other from both ends.

1. https://xcancel.com/thsottiaux/status/2090675027670978569#m

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by chvid » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:30 AM UTC

ReptileMan wrote: post #4

If deepseek operate on 80% margins as some suggested, this means that OpenAI reduced theirs from 1600% to 1200%.

Does anyone know who/what hardware serves Deepseek official for US and EU customers? And where it is located?

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by johnnyApplePRNG » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:30 AM UTC

discounting your most valuable model 20% today without a better model in the wing ...

pushing your API subscriber base towards a competitor with an exclusive 50%, openrouter, the other day ...

slashing paying codex subscriber usage limits to the point that many are cancelling long term contracts they've had with the company ...

is altman playing 4d chess or something I'm not aware of?

because from the outside, each of these moves looks pretty bad on the face of it

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by JSR_FDED » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:33 AM UTC

Or put differently, when lobbying doesn’t make you competitive you have to lower your prices.

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by BlackRabbit1 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:35 AM UTC

chvid wrote: post #16

ReptileMan wrote: post #4

If deepseek operate on 80% margins as some suggested, this means that OpenAI reduced theirs from 1600% to 1200%.

Does anyone know who/what hardware serves Deepseek official for US and EU customers? And where it is located?

Have a look at Tensorix for EU.

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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Post by seb2026 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 6:35 AM UTC

gentlewater wrote: post #14

Immediately checked [GitHub copilot]( https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing... ) to see if I can actually afford to use sol at work now, and see it listed at 2/10, which is less than Terra. An error, maybe?

“GPT-5.6 Sol is available at promotional pricing, 50% off standard rates, through September 3, 2026. The default tier is $2.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.20 per 1M cached input tokens, $2.50 per 1M cache write tokens, and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. The long context tier is $4.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.40 per 1M cached input tokens, $5.00 per 1M cache write tokens, and $15.00 per 1M output tokens.”