OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens
THE SO WHAT
A temporary 20%+ price cut on GPT-5.6 Sol is both a volume play and a shot in the ongoing price war at the high end. If you’re model-agnostic, this is the quarter to run side-by-side evals and lock in better enterprise terms while vendors are competing on both capability and cost.
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