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OpenAI halved the price of GPT-6 Sol — and doubled the premium on its own flagship without touching Astra's price
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10 and GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50 on 22 September 2026, a flat 50% cut against the GPT-5.6 tier. Astra did not move. Nineteen days ago Astra cost 2.5x Sol on every line item and OpenAI defended that with price-per-task; today it costs exactly 5x, and on OpenAI's own automation chart Astra at low effort scores below Sol at xhigh. Plus the effort-default gap every headline number in this launch is measured through.
Read story →Claude Opus 5.5 is 20% cheaper on the rate card and 40% cheaper in the press release — the gap is a default setting
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September 2026 at $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, down from Opus 5's $5/$25, with cache reads cut from $0.50 to $0.20. The headline claim is 40% cheaper to run. The rate card only accounts for about half of that; the rest comes from a default effort level that dropped from high to medium. Meanwhile cyber-flagged requests fall back to Opus 4.8 and bio-flagged ones to Opus 5 — both billed at $5/$25, more per token than the model you selected.
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