OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model

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OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra pricing by 20% effective July 30.
Sol pricing stayed unchanged, with OpenAI saying the cuts were enabled by efficiency gains in GPT-5.6 Sol.
Those gains included lower deployment costs and faster token generation.
The move intensifies AI price competition and could pressure rival model providers and revenue growth across frontier AI labs.
