OpenAI halves GPT-6 prices, making Sol cheaper per task than Opus 5
OpenAI cut GPT-6 prices in half, with Sol at $2/$10 per million tokens beating Opus 5 on AutomationBench at 9% of the cost per task, plus improved writing style.
SITUATION EXPLAINED: OpenAI cut GPT-6 prices in half. Sol now beats Opus 5 at 9% of the cost per task. • Sol is now $2 and $10 per million tokens, down from $4 and $20. Luna is $0.10 and $0.50, down from $0.20 and $1.20 • On AutomationBench, Sol at xhigh beats Opus 5 at max effort at 9% of its cost per task • Coding deception drops from 10.4% on GPT-5.6 Sol to 1.3% on GPT-6 Sol, with Astra at 0.5% • But every comparison in the post is against Opus 5, not the Opus 5.5 that shipped the same afternoon • OpenAI is also pitching better writing like Anthropic: more clarity, less jargon, fewer odd turns of phrase, shorter answers @theojaffee: "It's like a breath of fresh air to read LLM outputs and they don't sound like this grating, smug nonsense slop. Instead, they just sound like normal writing, finally."
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