{"slug": "ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-and-speed-updates", "title": "AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 pricing and speed updates", "summary": "AI Gateway has reduced prices for GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra, with Luna seeing an 80% price cut to $0.2 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens, and Terra dropping 20% to $2 and $12 respectively. GPT-5.6 Sol's fast mode is now 2.5x faster at no extra cost, with no code changes required for existing users.", "body_md": "On [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway), [GPT-5.6 Luna](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gpt-5.6-luna) and [GPT-5.6 Terra](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gpt-5.6-terra) are now cheaper and [GPT-5.6 Sol](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gpt-5.6-sol) is faster.\n\nAI Gateway adds no markup on token pricing, so these changes reach you at the upstream rate.\n\nThe changes apply to both short and long context pricing.\n\nModel | Change | Input: Short context (per 1M tokens) | Output: Short context (per 1M tokens) |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 80% price reduction | $0.2 | $1.2 |\n| 20% price reduction | $2 | $12 |\n| Same price, fast mode now 2.5x faster (up from 1.5x) | Unchanged | Unchanged |\n\nGPT-5.6 Sol keeps the same price; its fast mode now runs 2.5x faster, up from 1.5x. Model IDs are unchanged, so existing requests get the new rates and speed with no code change.\n\nSee full pricing detail on [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-and-speed-updates", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-speed-updates", "published_at": "2026-07-30 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 18:10:38.314074+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["AI Gateway", "GPT-5.6 Luna", "GPT-5.6 Terra", "GPT-5.6 Sol"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-and-speed-updates", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-and-speed-updates.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-and-speed-updates.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-gateway-gpt-5-6-pricing-and-speed-updates.jsonld"}}