The Frontier Race Just Became a Price War: GPT-6 Sol and Luna Land With 50% API Cuts

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna with permanent ~50% API price cuts, while some users report Anthropic's freshly shipped Opus 5.5 has degraded post-launch.

OpenAI shipped two new frontier models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, and paired them with what may be the more important announcement: permanent API price cuts of roughly 50%. As @mikogen reported, the drop signals a shift in where the competition is actually being fought — not on raw capability leaderboards, but on the cost of running agents at scale.

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