I used over a billion tokens per day of gpt-5.6 sol xhigh starting last Wednesday through Sunday before reaching my reset limit. The $200 pro plan is still the best deal.
Luna saw a huge jump after the price cut and is one of the more competitive models at the new price on openrouter.<p>Maybe they want to see how much market they can grab with Sol?<p>This might help but there are already cheaper models with Sol's intelligence more or less, the most notable being Grok 4.6 at $6/m which makes it a tougher sell
It's really only between Anthropic and OpenAI for many of my use cases, since I have a Zero Data Retention agreement with both. I'm <i>not</i> trusting random inference providers and especially not Elmo with sensitive data.
I don't care how capable or how cheap Grok is, I refuse to financially support a company owned by a white supremacist that is actively working to disenfranchise me and millions of my fellow citizens.
Since when does Grok 4.6 have Sol 5.6's intelligence? I don't believe it.
If they can cut the price of Sol by 50% and the price of Luna by 80%, then the original price might have carried a massive operating margin. They might still be serving the models at a profit after these price cuts, but we will never know.
I don’t think there’s a real answer for this. It depends on whatever number the accounting department wants to make up.<p>Do you include research costs? Of all models or only specific ones? What percent of the R&D budget do you allocate to model serving? What about data center capacity? Do you count future commitments? All the circular financing deals? Employee equity grants?
OpenAI didn't cut the price of Sol by 50% like they did with Luna's 80%. Sol was unchanged. This is just a limited promo for OpenRouter non-BYOK.
Price wars did wonders for many businesses, like the bike sharing industry in China.<p>Overgrown datacenters or mounds of GPUs dumped into the harbour next ?
I would in such a scenario expect the GPUs to be dumped to industrial breakers who would send them to China for refurbishment and repackaging before being sold again on Amazon, AliExpress, and Taobao as last gen gaming cards from weird brands and specs.<p>This is what happened after the great crypto GPU dumping.
Is this motivated by the value of the thinking traces gleaned from the traffic?
I'm loving this race to the bottom.
No ZDR. No dice.
The title looks to be misleading, since this price cut is limited to OpenRouter. It does not apply for the native OpenAI price listed at <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol" rel="nofollow">https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol</a>
Right? Should we switch from direct OpenAI API integration to OpenRouter?<p>What's the incentive here?<p>Open Responses API doesn't appear to support state management (yet)
Which raises the question - who is subsidizing this, and why?
Do other people find 5.6 to be worse at most simple tasks and frequently over complicate things?<p>I asked it to write a user todo and it turned out a four page essay. I gave the same task to 5.4 and got the small list of checkboxes I expected.
I've found it to be great for planning code changes (or new projects). I use the superpowers plug-in which I think guides the planning.<p>Then I switch models (to luna) before implementation. I find this combo nearly always does what I want.<p>I also use a skill called ponytail, its goal is to keep things terse and edits small. It may have contributed to the successes above.<p>I like that skills are easy to try out, too.
Yep. I have not yet had a single good experience with Sol or the 5.6 models on a variety of harnesses and configurations. It overthinks, overcomplicates and often makes my code into an unmaintainable sludge. It'll usually take 5+ turns of steering to get it in the right direction.
It's your responsibility to set an appropriate level of Thinking. For simple tasks, I use the instant model. As an approximation, the choice is proportional to the amount of time I want it spending on the task. Also, you can always ask it to respond succinctly.