GPT-6 Sol and Luna

OfficialTurkey 1385 points 672 comments September 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (19 comments)

hehimself

Love the price reductions across major players

beardsciences

There's no way this wasn't meant to coincide with Anthropic's release today.

Cu3PO42

Cutting prices by 50% as compared to 5.6 prices is exciting. GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/Mio input tokens and $0.50/Mio output is positively insane. EDIT: this doesn't say anything about availability on either Azure or AWS. I'm assuming it will show up later, but it would be interesting if it didn't.

potwinkle

Very nice in cost/1mtok. Looks like more work is being done for efficient everyday helper models as time goes on.

Readerium

Opus 5.5 seems better? Can someone attach both scores

droidjj

Not only is GPT-6 Luna better, it's 50% cheaper. It was already practically free on a pro plan.

nickandbro

Pricing is insane, can have Luna going after a goal for 10 days and not run into maxing out the limits.

pookieinc

I don't see how anyone can be using Claude with prices like this, it's pretty incredible what the OpenAI team is doing, w.r.t model quality and pricing. Prices per 1M tokens Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Cache reads $0.20 $0.50 Input tokens $4 $5 Output tokens $20 $25 Cache writes $5 $6.25 Model Input Output Price reduction GPT‑6 Sol vs. GPT‑5.6 Sol $4 → $2 $20 → $10 50% cheaper GPT‑6 Luna vs. GPT‑5.6 Luna $0.20 → $0.10 $1.20 → $0.50 50% cheaper

mchusma

What a day! I couldn't really use the last Luna for much (wasn't smart enough) or Astra (too expensive). So this release is really exciting. I can probably use Sol 6 as much as I want in the week, which as great.

sfkgtbor

I'm glad both labs noticed and are trying to improve the models communication styles, they were getting closer and closer to meaningless gibberish.

Readerium

6 Sol Performs worse than 5.6 Sol at DeepSwe? Wierd!!

samuelknight

No terra it seems? Luna 5.6 is great for token churning so it will be exciting to try the new one.

cesarvarela

It looks like the optimal pattern is to have Astra as the orchestrator and Sol as the implementer. Same as with Fable and Opus.

theanonymousone

Third-party inference providers will have a hard time to beat Luna in pricing with comparable open models.

badatnames

It's asking a lot to trust they can or will maintain this new pricing. In any case it's exciting to think this might lead to further price cuts in the highly competent and competitive Chinese clones. I'm still using ChatGPT for interactive queries, but at this point pretty much only because of its familiar UI

cmrdporcupine

Looking at their own charts it seems like it's only small incremental improvement over 5.6 Sol, but with a massive cost reduction. And the better writing/communication style that Astra had. Which... fine, I'll take that.

Ninjinka

so opus 5.5 is smarter and cheaper than fable, and sol 6 is a little dumber and WAY cheaper than astra? is that right?

eyk19

Luna really is "intelligence to cheap to meter" by now

jrflo

The only two benchmarks shared between the Opus 5.5 and Sol 6 launch seem to be frontier code and automation bench, looks like Sol wins on automation bench (same performance for half the cost) and Opus 5.5 wins on frontier code (2-5% better scores across the board for same cost)

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