GPT-6 Astra's pricing is 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol’s current prices across the board, up from $4/$20 to $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, with the same 90% discount for cache reads and 25% premium for cache writes.

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I had a wrong hope! It seems that users will never benefit from optimized pricing, while AI models and their processing methods become more optimized. Despite increasing revenue and user numbers(paid subscriptions), we are always seeing the price of models that cost less to suppliers increase: http…

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1. 2026-09-04 05:34 · r/OpenAI
   GPT-6 Astra's pricing is 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol’s current prices across the board, up from $4/$20 to $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, with the same 90% discount for cache reads and 25% premium for cache writes.