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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 tkgally »

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…

I was struck by a video ad that Google released yesterday with testimonials by three developers about using Gemini 3.7 Flash [1]. The point they emphasize most is price, followed by latency. The marketing strategy definitely seems to be shifting.

[1] https://youtu.be/kacf2bib-X0

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

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Post by ywvcbk »

londons_explore wrote: post #253
mirzap wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's discounted if used via OpenRouter, not the official API.

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

Or it's "normal" market segmentation. OpenRouter users are more price sensitive in general, also a lot of enterprise users who can't switch easily are using the official API (or Bedrock or Azure) and you want to squeeze them as much as you can.

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

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Post by childintime »

CompoundEyes wrote: post #51
infinite_spin wrote: post #31

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I have mine churning like butter and I'm rarely hitting a billion tokens per day, what's your workflow look like?

Pretty basic. The codex app with one conversation per project and several running simultaneously all hours. I’m going for max caching that way and it never gets lost even with compaction somehow. Each has a plan with milestones to keep up to date and a thin agents file. I check in on them in the Remote app. Use case is protocol and control reverse engineering of audio hardware. I think they must be identifying the he…

I'd like to see a benchmark on this specific topic: Reverse engineer the hardware protocol from a driver, or just migrate a driver from one OS to another.

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

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Post by nurettin »

netsec_burn wrote: post #32

After 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.

Used claude since 7/2025. Switched to codex after fable got blocked. It was still 5.5 but I knew they had to come up with something. As soon as I switched, wow. It wasn't super intelligent, but it was stable. Every day it was the same performance. This consistency is definitely worth paying for.

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

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Post by eru »

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…

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

Well, DeepSeek just raised prices.

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

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Post by nutribeatApp »

shibaprasadb wrote: post #255
netsec_burn wrote: post #32

After 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 cancelled my subscription recently and moved to Sol. So far - it has been a great experience. The only aspect where Fable/Claude is better I feel is doing some research from the web and summarising the facts.

I generally prefer Fable but in my experience Sol is a much better web researcher

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

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Post by gagan2020 »

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…

I shifted from DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 to Gemini 3.7 flash on openrouter and price shoots up almost double with no visible change in outcome. So, today I reverted back.

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

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Post by jeswin »

jeffybefffy519 wrote: post #289
jeswin wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on what effort you're using etc. As an example [1] of what codex is capable of, here's hugo (written in golang) ported to TypeScript - and then a TypeScript to Rust transpiler which converts arbitrary TypeScript into Rust. The TypeScript code which was transpiled into Rust (and is compatible with most hugo templates) runs faster than the original hugo. [1]: https://github.com/tsoniclang/tsonic-examples/tre…

I find all effort levels of sol are the same in terms of amount of hallucinated unnecessary changes. Luna is much better all round on xhigh but my point still stands, every release of these new models is not an upgrade, its re-learning how to work with it. Its like rehiring an employee every few months then training them up. Its honestly tiring and cant stay like this. Opus has the same problem too…

That's not been my experience. My prompting methods haven't changed much between recent GPT releases. I do put a lot of effort into building tooling and tests around a project, so the LLM output is converging around it.

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

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Post by rafaelmn »

londons_explore wrote: post #253
mirzap wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's discounted if used via OpenRouter, not the official API.

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

Literally all OEMs do this, if you go to Apple site you won't see any sales, but Amazon and other retailers will have stuff at 20% off regularly

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

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Post by SyneRyder »

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

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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.

It might also be worth noting that the discount is only if OpenAI itself is used as the provider via OpenRouter. The discount does not exist for Azure or Amazon hosted Sol.

I posted elsewhere, but the Azure uptime & performance for Sol is truly dire. OpenAI is offering 5x faster latency, 4x faster tokens generation, and vastly better uptime (Azure US has only 87% uptime), all for 50% of the price now. I assume the pricing is to compete with other shiny new models (Grok, Qwen etc), but it might also be to cut-off a truly poorly performing Microsoft hosting experience.

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