OpenAI/Anthropic meanwhile feel a bit like they're hoping to sell iPhones in a market about to be flooded by $20 flip phones, with almost no channel of their own to do it. And for whatever mad reason OpenAI are now signalling they will attempt to compete on price with flip phones despite their cost of labour, energy, and just about everything else being far higher
I don't see your metaphor to iphones and flip phones. This new Luna model is cheaper than deepseek 4.1 flash, except for cache reads. OpenAI having to compete with China is a much larger economic-political issue that is far larger than just our AI labs.
Then they do a new model launch, issue quota resets all around, and it's a party for 2-3 weeks before things return to normal.
Does anyone know how exactly these price differences for example between sol6 and sol5.6 translate to codex percentages? In theory it seems like for "high" on both it should result in ~3x more usage. If that is actually the case it would be huge! But all we see is % left and % changes while using and we really have no idea when or how those numbers are being calculated or when they change. So there is a 50% price reduction on API but who knows how the hell that translates to whatever price calculation is used on codex.
Also Mimo 2.6 is roughly 30% cheaper. Without batch.
Or use the failure to get a response like you say
https://community.openai.com/t/experimental-context-manageme...
I would also like to point out that it was quite predictable that Terra got discontinued, it didn’t make sense to have it when both Sol and Luna overlapped it.
Lunas insane discount is a game changer, OpenAI knows what they are doing here. Luna at max reasoning effort, even though its not optimal for long conversations, its incredibly intelligent while dirty cheap. Its not even competition anymore.
Whats even crazier is that I’ve underestimated how good Luna actually is. I’ve seen colleges create fantastic things with just Luna medium. This basically means you never have to think about your Codex usage anymore. You can run all day and not
have to worry about your 5h or weekly usage limit. To me, the discounts OpenAI is offering with Sol and Luna is truly a new milestone.
GPT-6 Luna now is 50% cheaper, which makes it have one of the best intelligence per cost ratios.
GPT-6 Sol is smarter, but seems to reason 2x more than GPT-5.6, which makes it 2x slow3r and 25% more expensive in practice.
[0]: https://aibenchy.com/compare/openai-gpt-6-sol-high/openai-gp...
For example, I had Fable review Astra’s output yesterday, and it found some issues and fixed them. Passing the fixes back, Astra then uncovered additional issues with Fable’s fixes (and yes, this will go on ad infinitum if you let it, but these were “real” issues).
It seems the big story here is the reduced Luna pricing. It’s a fantastic model that can handle most automation needs (though I still use the big models for day-to-day development).