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OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices in aggressive push against open source AI models
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Key facts
- Anthropic followed on August 10, making the introductory pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 permanent at $2/$10 per million tokens
- Anthropic countered with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 list pricing, though built-in efficiency improvements deliver around 40% effective savings for users
- On July 30, OpenAI cut prices on GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, bringing costs down to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
- Chinese AI companies have been setting aggressively low price benchmarks that make even the reduced US pricing look expensive
Summary
Dramatic price cuts on proprietary models are pulling developers away from open source alternatives, but Chinese competitors are keeping the pressure on. On July 30, OpenAI cut prices on GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, bringing costs down to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. Anthropic followed on August 10, making the introductory pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 permanent at $2/$10 per million tokens. Then September 22 brought a second wave.