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OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model

OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 pricing by up to eighty percent to counter aggressive market competition. The company reduces Luna costs by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent, driven by internal infrastructure gains from its Sol model. This aggressive pricing move helps developers dramatically lower inference costs amid mounting pressure from affordable Chinese AI providers and Microsoft.

The Decoder·Jul 30, 2026

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