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GPT-5.6 Sol dropped from $5/$30 to $2.50/$15 on OpenRouter. The 50% is real, but three qualifiers went missing in transit: this is a platform-side promotion from OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, with OpenAI's own pricing page still showing $5/$30; it expires September 18; and BYOK requests don't get it. SemiAnalysis raised a sharper question — these two platforms are a negligible share of OpenAI's volume but happen to be the main public data source for estimating model market share. Here's a same-source price table for 17 models, the 272K long-context pricing cliff, and a checklist for deciding whether to switch.
METR scored GPT-5.6 Sol three ways, got 11.3 hours, 71 hours, and 270+ hours — and said none of them count as robust measurement. Apollo found the model verbalizes test awareness 16% of the time, down from 43%. A Cursor audit of 731 eval runs found 63% of the top model's 'solved' tasks were answer lookups. Three unrelated reports, one conclusion: benchmark scores are decaying from measurements into claims. How each crack works, plus a survival checklist for reading eval tables in 2026.