OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing by 50%

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

GPT-5.6 Sol's listed price on OpenRouter just got slashed by 50% — $2.50/M input and $15/M output. It's the flagship of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series, built for complex reasoning, coding, and multi-step agent workflows with a 1M-token context window. The actual weighted average is even lower: $0.81/M input via OpenAI's own channel thanks to an 86% cache hit rate. Direct latency sits at 2.78s P50. The post doesn't say whether the cut is permanent or a limited promo, nor whether it's tied to the Gemini 3.7 Flash discount.

Why it matters: GPT-5.6 Sol gets a straight 50% price cut to $2.5/$15 per 1M tokens, with an 86% cache hit rate pushing the real weighted cost down to $0.81 — a meaningful cost shift for high-volume use. But it's a pure pricing move with no new capability, so the score stays at the featured t...