GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing: The 50% Cut Was Not OpenAI's

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing: The 50% Cut Was Not OpenAI's

GPT-5.6 Sol pricing now reads $2.00 input / $10.00 output per million tokens on OpenRouter’s OpenAI route, down from $5.00 / $30.00 in mid-August. That is a real 50% cut. It was not OpenAI’s price cut — it is a router promotion stacked on top of a separate OpenAI reduction to $4 / $20. That distinction is the whole article, because the two numbers are different prices on different layers, and almost every story about this model conflates them. ...

October 1, 2026 · 16 min · baeseokjae