OpenAI's Sol Undercuts Its Own Flagship

🔥 What happened OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol, a mid-tier model claiming near-Astra performance on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work. Pricing: $2 input, $10 output, $0.10 cached input per million tokens. Live today in the API, ChatGPT Work, and Codex. 💡 Why it matters Cached reads now cost 5% of the uncached input rate, down from 10% — and agents resend the same system prompt and tool schemas on every step, so that's where the real savings land. On Terminal-Bench Science, Sol costs $5.47 per task versus $23.21 for Opus 5.5 and $23.80 for Astra. Astra only wins on the hardest research. ⚡ Our take OpenAI is cannibalizing its own flagship before Anthropic or Google get the chance. Anyone still booking Astra pays 4x for a fraction of the tasks — that's not a price, that's a statement.