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OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol to $4/$20 per million tokens but guarantees the rate only "at least through November 21, 2026," with no successor published. The cut was asymmetric, so no two workloads saved the same amount — and the reversion is +50% on output, not +33%.
August 24, 2026 · 12 min read
Anthropic is in advanced talks to buy Decart for roughly $7 billion, mostly in its own pre-IPO stock, to cut what a Claude token costs it to produce. Every Sonnet through 4.6 still lists at its March 2024 price, and the one cut that did land arrived as a new model number — which is why a flat multi-year rate card is the wrong thing to sign this quarter.
August 18, 2026 · 13 min read