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 (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

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OpenAI temporarily cut GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing by over 20%, intensifying competition on frontier model inference costs.

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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-cuts-developer-pricing-frontier-gpt-56-sol-model-by-more-than-20-2026-08-21/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260821/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260821/p26#a260821p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anzar Mehraj / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-cuts-developer-pricing-frontier-gpt-56-sol-model-by-more-than-20-2026-08-21/">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</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than 20% for the next three months &hellip; </p>