LLMs · via Hacker News
Why OpenAI and Anthropic cut LLM prices by up to 80%
Max Woolf charts months of tit-for-tat price cuts, from GPT-5.6 Luna's 80% drop to Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, and argues cheap open-weight models served by dozens of providers are forcing the labs' hand. Agent coding costs have fallen sharply as a result.