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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 #140

This 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...

You do it if you can afford to do it and your competitor can't.

Who are OpenRouter’s competitors?

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

#142
post #60

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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…

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.

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

#143
post #74

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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.

Because API pricing is for corporations and subscriptions are for consumers.

Are we supposed to just shrug at the idea of businesses paying 10x more for raw materials than consumers? How long can this go on?

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

#144
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…

Why are you being downvoted, is this post an ad or something.

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

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post #111

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No, this is OpenAI doing the discount, not Openrouter by themselves. OpenAI is crushing it with their 5.6 models, and they probably decided there was no better time to grab as much market share as possible.

I don’t understand this at all. They have never been profitable yet. How is this helping them? When it be more likely the case that not enough, people are using it as the prices they established already? So now they have to lower the prices?

They're prepping to IPO. They want top level metrics like usage they can use to pump investors, not nonsense like profitability.

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

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post #111

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No, this is OpenAI doing the discount, not Openrouter by themselves. OpenAI is crushing it with their 5.6 models, and they probably decided there was no better time to grab as much market share as possible.

I don’t understand this at all. They have never been profitable yet. How is this helping them? When it be more likely the case that not enough, people are using it as the prices they established already? So now they have to lower the prices?

You lower prices for marketshare. Fable became a mythological model to leadership because they were the first story of ai escaping and hacking another company. The it's so dangerous the public can't use it narrative is sticky so OpenAI is showing off its model so as many eyeballs as possible. We're in the samples in the supermarket phase.

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

#147
post #60

Earlier 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 used Sol to extract the remaining decryption keys from the Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch) game files. Someone had previously extracted all the keys from the original release, but not any of the new ones from updates. Not only did it succeed, but it helped me understand the data sufficiently to add support for “Super World” rendering to my level viewer (which I made back in 2021), eg the little widget at the top of ht…

Have they made Sol do less unwanted autonomy than the previous Codex models did?

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

#148
post #83

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plenty of companies offer ZDR and are just as random as OpenAI and Anthropic in their age

Would love a few names. Many of them fail to provide good uptime for large scale jobs or don’t have batch apis at all in my research.

DigitalOcean does inference, has good uptime and offers ZDR. They are not an AI first/inference first company. They have been serving cloud products for almost 2 decades.

Batch API is a bit harder, not many models/providers support Batch. It primarily is only the Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude models that do. DigitalOcean does support a 50% discount on Batch API via them directly, not listed on OpenRouter.

[1] https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/inference/how-to/use-...

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

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I used Sol to extract the remaining decryption keys from the Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch) game files. Someone had previously extracted all the keys from the original release, but not any of the new ones from updates. Not only did it succeed, but it helped me understand the data sufficiently to add support for “Super World” rendering to my level viewer (which I made back in 2021), eg the little widget at the top of ht…

Fable is almost unusable for anything but super boring mainstream stuff. I was getting safeguard flagged so often I’ve significantly reduced my usage out of fear they will blacklist/ban me. Some of the topics it’s flagged have been hard for me to understand what it seeing that can be remotely concerning in my requests.

I've gotten flagged for asking questions about tokens and tensors. That makes me believe it's not about safety, it's about protecting their turf. I cancelled my subscription - same fear about getting flagged too much leading to a ban.

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

#150

Does OpenRouter eat this cost to get their hands on a copy of the conversations people are using with the model?

OpenRouter offers 1% discount to save your conversations, explicitly opt-in.

Anything else they don't save it. Even if they tell you the model provider saves your data for training.

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