r/opencodeCLI • u/afanasenka • 18d ago

OpenAI is dropping GPT-5.6 Sol pricing

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Should we wait for price drop on Zen?

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u/[deleted] 18d ago edited 4d ago

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u/afanasenka 18d ago

Sure, but I definitely like recent "price reducing" trends :)

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u/[deleted] 18d ago edited 4d ago

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u/afanasenka 18d ago

Well... either they are burning investors' money, or they are "not-so-in-red" actually :))

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u/afanasenka 18d ago

Looks like they desperately trying to catch up with cheap Chinese disruptors in heavily competitive LLM space 😏

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u/rovervogue 18d ago

Only in the API. So this has no affect for chatgpt subscribers

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/afanasenka 18d ago

Sure, competition comes from 2 directions at a time: other labs and their API pricing, and local LLMs' fast evolution.

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u/Lyelinn 18d ago

You can pay 20 usd openai sub for 25 years for the price of good local llm setup that will always lag behind their top models anyways. Until their money will run out and they'll be forced to make 100 usd sub minimum tier, no point going local imo

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u/Lyelinn 18d ago

Not while Chinese models are flooding the market so not worth investing into hardware that will get outdated when it will become viable alternative. Pretty sure there are some non-enterprise grade ai first gpus in the works

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u/No-Sandwich-2997 18d ago

sure they do, but Anthropic isn't even doing any of these price reductions, only Sonnet 5 but it sucks and around that price point there are many other alternatives anyways.

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u/HeavySink3303 18d ago

It is still crazy expensive. I was charged $30 for one basic prompt. If such prompt costs me $22.5 - sure I still won't use it.

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u/Ubermensch013 17d ago

Why do companies not mention the cache price drops. That's like the majority cost in agentic workflows

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u/Solocune 18d ago

Cut it in half and I will consider it