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20% price reduction for GPT 5.6 Sol

OpenAI has cut API and credit pricing for its GPT-5.6 Sol model by over 20% for three months, with input dropping from $5.00 to $4.00 per million tokens, cached input from $0.50 to $0.40, and output from $30.00 to $20.00, effective through at least November 21, 2026. The price reduction applies to the API and eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex credits, while Pro, Plus, and Business subscription pricing remains unchanged.

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20% price reduction for GPT 5.6 Sol
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VeitB 1 As we continue to push the frontier of capabilities while improving efficiency, we’re dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20% for the next 3 months.

Now available on the API and rolling out across eligible plans for ChatGPT Work and Codex credits.

Pro, Plus, and Business subscription usage remains unchanged.

_j 3 Sol now costs over 20% less, (Terra costs 20% less, and Luna costs 80% less.)

  • Sol’s promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026.

GPT-5.6 API pricing changes - July 30 + Sol promo Aug 21 - Nov 21+

Prices are in USD per 1 million tokens. New for “Sol” is the promotional price reduction

| Model | Input — Old | Input — New | Cached — Old | Cached — New | Output — Old | Output — New | | GPT-5.6 Sol | $5.00 | $4.00 | $0.50 | $0.40 | $30.00 | $20.00 | | GPT-5.6 Terra | $2.50 | $2.00 | $0.25 | $0.20 | $15.00 | $12.00 | | GPT-5.6 Luna | $1.00 | $0.20 | $0.10 | $0.02 | $6.00 | $1.20 |

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