alt Hacker NewsGPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
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Or put differently, when lobbying doesn’t make you competitive you have to lower your prices.
This is a play to grab market share from Claude, But it seems Claude code is too strong of a brand
Until the IT managers and CFOs cut budget hard, Claude will live rent free in heads of all developers
OpenAI should attack the CIO and CFOs stat
At my company we have unlimited codex and claude, still people stick to gimped claude code
discounting your most valuable model 20% today without a better model in the wing ...
pushing your API subscriber base towards a competitor with an exclusive 50%, openrouter, the other day ...
slashing paying codex subscriber usage limits to the point that many are cancelling long term contracts they've had with the company ...
is altman playing 4d chess or something I'm not aware of?
because from the outside, each of these moves looks pretty bad on the face of it
Immediately checked [GitHub copilot](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...) to see if I can actually afford to use sol at work now, and see it listed at 2/10, which is less than Terra. An error, maybe?
Does this mean a commensurate increase in subscription usage limits?
Thanks, DeepSeek. Without it, I’d be paying a lot more to those bloodsuckers.
It is absurd for the Chat Latest (chat-latest) model to now be pricier than Sol. For those who prefer a non-thinking instant model, it is the model of choice, not Sol.
Also, they have done nothing for the TTS model which remains ridiculously priced.
Reminds me of the early aws days, when they would pass down the savings to customers
If deepseek operate on 80% margins as some suggested, this means that OpenAI reduced theirs from 1600% to 1200%.
This headline is misleading - the price reduction is temporary for three months only. But I would wager it could become permanent.
I would give it a try over opus if they discount was passed onto openrouter.
Even if you don't want to use open models, you should cheer for them anyway because it puts the American frontier labs' feet to the flames. This competition is awesome for us consumers.