The Frontier Price War Goes Nuclear: OpenAI Halves Token Prices, Anthropic Cuts Opus by 40%
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive with a 50% price cut on the same day Anthropic ships Opus 5.5 at roughly 40% cheaper — a coordinated collapse in cost-per-token that reframes the entire competition.
The frontier labs shipped on the same day and the headline number was the same: price. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna while cutting token prices in half, according to @TraffAlex, who described a "full-blown price war." Hours earlier, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 at roughly 40% cheaper than Opus 5, as reported by @marcopapa99. When two of the most capable models on the market both get dramatically cheaper on the same day, the competition has clearly moved off the capability leaderboard and onto the invoice.
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