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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.
Stripe has finalized a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. The money isn't for the code that forwards requests — it's for the power to decide which provider serves them. But Stripe bought Amazon's position without Amazon's lock-in.
Netlify ran the same coffee-shop prompt through 11 frontier models using its open-sourced AXIS framework. Credit spend ranged from 2.4 to 519 — and the price tag turned out to be the least interesting part.