GPT-6.1 Sol costs what GPT-6 Sol did, and only the cache got cheaper
A fifth of Astra’s price, yes. Against GPT-6 Sol, the only price that moved is cached input, cut from $0.20 to $0.10.
A fifth of Astra’s price, yes. Against GPT-6 Sol, the only price that moved is cached input, cut from $0.20 to $0.10.
Same $2 and $10 price as Sonnet 5, benchmarks within two or three points of Opus 5.5, and a disabled thinking setting that now returns a 400.
Anthropic cut Opus to $4 and $20 per million tokens and cache reads by 60%. The catch is four request shapes that Opus 5 accepted and Opus 5.5 rejects.
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