OpenAI Temporarily Lowers Prices on Its Latest AI Model

OpenAI announced a temporary price cut on August 21, 2026 for GPT-5.6 Sol, a model developers use to add AI features to apps. Fees fell from $5.00 to $4.00 per million words of text sent to the model, and from $30.00 to $20.00 per million words returned. A second model, GPT-5.6 Terra, saw a 20% drop. Whether the lower rates continue beyond three months is unknown.