The title looks to be misleading, since this price cut is limited to OpenRouter. It does not apply for the native OpenAI price listed at https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol

jrflo 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, and it's only for a month. This is an ad.

user43928 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenRouter and the Vercel AI Gateway.

So yes, presumably a very small share of their total traffic.

paxys 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which raises the question - who is subsidizing this, and why?

Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market.

	▲	maxnevermind 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Why though, to AB test/see the impact of a price cut on a platform with multiple competitors?
	▲	paxys 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Is this captive audience not going to switch providers for a 50% discount? Especially when the effort is simply swapping one URL for another?

OutOfHere 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

OpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions.

Wouldn’t that be against TOS?

	▲	OutOfHere 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It might be through a level of indirection via an intermediate provider, offloading the TOS issue to the intermediate provider who couldn't care less.

matchagaucho 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right? Should we switch from direct OpenAI API integration to OpenRouter?

What's the incentive here?

Open Responses API doesn't appear to support state management (yet)

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