As we continue to push the frontier of capabilities while improving efficiency, we’re dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20% for the next 3 months.
Starting today, you get the same Sol intelligence at a lower price. Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, 20% lower input pricing and 33% lower output pricing.
The price reductions also apply to Fast mode, long-context requests, and Batch and Flex processing.
Now available on the API and rolling out across eligible plans for ChatGPT Work and Codex credits.
Pro, Plus, and Business subscription usage remains unchanged.
It is logical to assume the price will revert to the standard Sol pricing up to now. The possibility is left open for the discount to continue past the stated three months.
However, in the interim, there not just three months for OpenAI to find “efficiencies” such as reduced the price of Terra and Luna models, but we also might be talking about the next released AI model completely by November.
Varying pricing on API is a bit of annoyance, because with gpt-5.6 family, this is the first time that OpenAI has changed the price of a particular model ID since 2022, and also has abandoned a dated model concept, and thus, if you had a pricing estimation calculator, it has to be edited to keep up, documentation loses historic pricing with these immediate commits of undated replacement pricing tables, and now your application has to anticipate dynamic future pricing.
If it’s not too much to ask, you can forward your 5.6-Sol usage to a proxy API where I charge you the original price and donate the margin back to this community in the form of swag or maybe community hackathon prizes.
No worries: the price of free for 10M daily Terra tokens didn’t change.
Billing clients for the free daily complementary tokens when sharing their data for training, not disallowed.
Only if you promise to not run moderation and let those strikes pile up, though, a great service!..
In three months there will likely be a new model release which would likely margin the discounted price. Discounting is only slightly minimizing revenue. I doubt a 20% is going on the books as a “loss”. Point is, in three months there’s a good chance the 20% remains?
Terrible! Why not just increase the normal plan quota by 20%? It clearly feels like they want us to burn through the subscription limit and then pay extra for more credits. Really disappointing — I’m honestly close to switching to another AI.
I would like to know which alternatives are you considering tho, i want the extra values of a provider can replace chatgpt, images and remote control like openai does it.
