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GPT-5.6 Sol pricing reduced on AI Gateway with 50% discount

OpenAI lowered list pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol, and Vercel's 50% AI Gateway discount continues to apply to the new lower rates through September 18th. Input tokens are 20% cheaper and output tokens are 33% cheaper across all service tiers with no code changes required.

OpenAI just lowered list pricing for . The 50% AI Gateway discount continues and applies to the new list price now through September 18th.GPT-5.6 Sol

The 50% discount applies on every tier on the OpenAI provider, against the new list price.

Rates are per million tokens, for requests up to 272K tokens. The reduction is the same proportion on every tier: input is 20% lower than before and output is a third lower. Cached tokens, cache writes, and long-context requests above 272K move on the same terms, as do the US regional rates. Current rates for every model are on the .pricing page

The discount itself has not changed, and neither has the date it ends. This is the same 50% off applied to a lower list price. Billing through AI Gateway picks this up automatically. requests run on your own account and bill at your rate with the provider.BYOK

The model ID () is unchanged, so requests you already send bill at the new rate with no code change:openai/gpt-5.6-sol

Sol takes a reasoning effort up to for the hardest problems, accepts text, image, and PDF input, and carries a long context window.max

To use it in a coding agent, see the , then run to connect agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Pi, and more, and select inside the agent.coding agents guidevercel ai-gateway coding-agents setupopenai/gpt-5.6-sol

and to get started with AI Gateway.Try GPT-5.6 Sol in the playgroundview all language models

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Pricing

Service tier

You pay now (input / output)

New list price (input / output)

You paid before (input / output)

Default

$2.00 / $10.00

$4.00 / $20.00

$2.50 / $15.00

Flex

$1.00 / $5.00

$2.00 / $10.00

$1.25 / $7.50

Priority (fast mode)

$4.00 / $20.00

$8.00 / $40.00

$5.00 / $30.00

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