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Posted by Topfi 14 hours ago

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%(openrouter.ai)
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ronfriedhaber 1 hour ago|
Hard to estimate what enabled the price cuts, Yet OpenAI is doing some magic work, especially recently.
dannyw 56 minutes ago|
Hard to estimate? Everyone knows the elephant in the room: capable open weight models.
m4rtink 11 hours ago||
Price wars did wonders for many businesses, like the bike sharing industry in China.

Overgrown datacenters or mounds of GPUs dumped into the harbour next ?

Moto7451 10 hours ago||
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.

This is what happened after the great crypto GPU dumping.

dawnerd 8 hours ago|||
Honestly can't wait for that to happen, same with memory, drives, etc. There's going to be a massive amount of server pulls hitting the market.
Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago||||
The e-waste recyclers are pretty low on the pecking order, as the creditors will be first to strip these places for assets as Leopold Aschenbrenner discovered. =3
m4rtink 10 hours ago|||
Yeah, I ment it as a joke - I agree with you. Watched the Gamers Nexus GPU investigation recently, where they were shown how a chinese soldering shop can transplant GPU chips to a new board, including memory chip reuse.

Hopefully we can look forward to all that useless datacenter AI crap gets repurposed in a similar manner into something actually useful for users.

kajaktum 10 hours ago||
I wouldnt be so hopeful because they dont use commodity hardware afaik How are you going to use a h100 at home?
HeWhoLurksLate 9 hours ago||
with the same tricks gamers have always used? Modded drivers, undervolting, etc.?
m4rtink 2 hours ago||
Exactly + you can harvest the HBM memory on chip level & resolder on custom boards usable in PCs as VRAM (with scavenged GPU) or as normal RAM sticks.
skohan 5 hours ago|||
I would happily buy up a load of datacenter GPU's at deep discount
Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago||
Won't have to wait very long... as they are eating their own already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE75WvOtcu8

The Shrek movie market correction correlation may be due again in July 2027. =3

throwatdem12311 8 hours ago|||
Mountains of GPUs next to the ET games in the landfill.
vatsachak 8 hours ago||
Well one person can use at most one bicycle at a time.

One person can use as many GPUs as they want.

stillpointlab 5 hours ago||
I like to see this. I still prefer Fable (marginally) but my last big task was 100% Codex using Sol max (re-sizing my AWS infrastructure using CDK) and it did a very good job. No complaints, I could use this model happily to do what I need to get done.

If this nudges Anthropic to give me more Fable usage, that's even better.

0xbadcafebee 5 hours ago|
> my last big task was 100% Codex using Sol max (re-sizing my AWS infrastructure using CDK)

Fwiw, you could do this with any small or medium model, and it's easier with the aws-docs mcp. AWS is pretty stable, well documented, and programmatic, so most AI can figure out what it needs pretty quick

claiir 5 hours ago||
Since it's only discounted on the standard "OpenAI," non-ZDR route (old pricing on Azure), I'm guessing a lot of users won't see this benefit? Since a lot of users enable a global "ZDR-only" toggle on OR
stavros 3 hours ago|
It would seem that getting lots of data is exactly the reason to discount this.
dannyw 1 hour ago||
OpenAI says they don't use any API data for training.

(there's probably going to be a reply about 'but how can you trust them'; I'm just stating what they say)

solenoid0937 45 minutes ago|||
Unless it's in your contract, they will use the data. They might not be using it now, but they will eventually.
stavros 48 minutes ago|||
Does OpenRouter say the same?
krzyk 6 hours ago||
Is this pricing change only for openrouter? I don't see official OpenAI info about this.
Bombthecat 4 hours ago|
I was wondering the same, and it clearly says : 50% off, aka a sale, not normal price cut.

I don't get this thread.... Really. Is it full of bots?

matheusmoreira 6 hours ago||
Does this mean less subscription credit usage as well?
kaycey2022 4 hours ago||
No because i am still losing 50% of my weekly quota using sol on high.
Tadpole9181 5 hours ago||
It just looks like OpenRouter is doing a 50% sale on some models right now? Until OpenAI makes an announcement, I would assume no.
0xbadcafebee 5 hours ago||
OpenRouter doesn't do sales, they charge a premium, which is a flat 5.5% taken out of your credits. If you see something cheap on OpenRouter, it's because that one provider lowered its price. (Actually, correction, they will take 0.5% off their fee if you allow them to train your content)

Here are all the providers giving discounts: https://openrouter.ai/collections/discounted-models

Another thing some people don't notice is flex pricing, which is way lower than default pricing, for slightly worse latency and reliability. Depends on the provider and model

egorfine 3 hours ago||
Slightly unrelated: what's up with the "tps" value? Does GPT-5.6 Sol really deliver just 32 tokens/second?
ardel95 2 hours ago||
My bet is that OpenRouter began steering GPT-5.6-sol users towards flex tier, which is already 50% off.

So this isn’t really a price cut. As to why, lots of possible reasons. Perhaps an agreement with OpenAI to help them drive up more diverse traffic priorities.

throwatdem12311 8 hours ago||
At this point the models are “good enough” and whoever wins long term is gonna be whoever is the cheapest.

That’s why Chinese models are gaining traction and it’ll be the only way for OpenAI or Anthropic to keep up.

dgunay 11 hours ago|
I'm loving this race to the bottom.
infinite_spin 10 hours ago||
I'm not having that experience. So far each major model update has been at least slightly better than the last, in ways I've found useful. Can't say it's perfect, or able to do exactly what I want without a decent amount of instruction/implementation/docs, but it's been useful enough to keep paying for it.
fn-mote 10 hours ago|||
GP means race to the bottom in price not quality.
dgunay 8 hours ago||||
Oh no the models are absolutely getting better, I'm just amazed that only 6 months ago I was using gpt-5.3-codex, and now I can use gpt-5.6-luna for similar results at like 1/15th the cost. Now 5.6-sol is being slashed by 50%? Amazing.
Taikhoom10 8 hours ago||
same, I have my popcorn - https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-openrouter-can-be-the-next-...
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