OpenAI slashes Terra and Luna prices to win over cost-conscious customers
TL;DR
OpenAI cut prices for its GPT-5.6 trio’s Terra and Luna models—Terra down 20% to $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, Luna down 80% to $0.20 input and $1.20 output tokens—while Sol’s pricing stays the same. The move comes as the company faces cost pressures and fierce competition from Chinese startups and rivals like Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, and aims to spur adoption of newer, more cost-efficient AI models.
- OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs CNBC
- Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 OpenAI
- OpenAI slashes Luna pricing Axios
- OpenAI cuts prices on smaller models as businesses scrutinize AI spend Reuters
- OpenAI fixed GPT-5.6 Sol’s most frustrating flaw: Burning limits while it waits The New Stack
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