OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol Costs Half Price on OpenRouter. OpenAI's Own Price Card Has Not Moved.
A widely shared 'OpenAI cuts prices 50%' is a discount at one gateway. Call the API directly and you still pay $5 and $30.
1h ago
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AI Chips
OpenAI Is Serving a Frontier Model on Cerebras Silicon at 750 Tokens a Second
Ultrafast runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster than standard inference. It is the first time OpenAI has publicly put a frontier model on someone else's accelerator.
4d ago
AI Models
OpenAI Removed the Message Cap for Free Users. It Also Moved Them to Its Smallest Model.
Free and Go accounts get unlimited text chats and GPT-5.6 Luna as the default. Neither ships this week, and the reasoning models stay behind the subscription.
Aug 9, 2026
AI Models
OpenAI Cut Its Cheapest Model 80% and Says Its Best One Rewrote the Serving Stack
Luna is down 80%, Terra 20%, and the flagship is unchanged. The efficiency gain OpenAI actually measured was 20%.
Jul 31, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Quietly Cuts Codex's Context Window for GPT-5.6, and Developers Push Back
OpenAI reduced the default context window in its Codex CLI for GPT-5.6 by more than a quarter — from 372,000 to 272,000 tokens — and developers say long coding sessions now spend more time compacting than working.
Jul 20, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Lifts ChatGPT's 5-Hour Limit and Resets 500K Codex Accounts After GPT-5.6 Surge
A traffic wave from the newly public GPT-5.6 'Sol' model pushed OpenAI to temporarily drop the 5-hour usage cap on paid tiers on July 12 and re-grant usage to about 500,000 Codex and ChatGPT Work accounts.
Jul 13, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 to the Public — Sol, Terra and Luna
The three tiers are reaching ChatGPT, the API and Codex today, ending a nearly two-week government-coordinated preview that had held the model to about 20 vetted partners — though the rollout is staged, not flipped on for everyone at once.
Jul 9, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Wins US Clearance to Launch GPT-5.6 Widely
The Commerce Department's AI standards body signed off after weeks of testing — ending a preview limited to about 20 vetted partners and making GPT-5.6 the first frontier model to ship on the government's schedule, not OpenAI's.
Jul 8, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Debuts GPT-5.6 but Limits It to 20 Partners
The new Sol, Terra and Luna models launched to just 20 vetted partners at the US government's request, under a new process for vetting frontier AI before wide release.
Jul 4, 2026
