OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices Hard as the US-China Model War Turns to Economics

OpenAI slashed prices on its GPT-5.6 variants — reportedly 80% off one tier — as Chinese open-weight models pile competitive pressure onto the frontier labs.

The frontier is now competing on price as much as capability. According to @marcopapa99, OpenAI has cut GPT-5.6 prices "hard," including a reported 80% reduction on its Luna tier and cheaper Terra pricing, in a move explicitly framed as a response to Chinese AI competition. The same roundup noted Moonshot's Kimi K3 arriving as a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model.

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