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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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  1. minimaxir · · focus · HN ↗
    > Cached input costs just $0.10 per million tokens—95% less than standard input pricing and 50% less than GPT‑6 Sol’s cached input pricing

    This is the actual big announcement. 50% cheaper cache than GPT-6 Sol will get you far more mileage on Codex.

    1. TuxSH · · focus · HN ↗
      Exactly half as expensive as Opus 5.5 in every API pricing metric
      1. bigwheels · · focus · HN ↗
        And half as good. I didn't have great experiences with Anthropic models in the past, but Opus 5.5 seems to have turned a major corner. It is churning through tasks significantly more quickly and efficiently.

        Suggest trying it out yourself: Ask for something difficult from GPT-6 Sol and Opus 5.5 and watch what each one does. The difference is stark.

        Edit: Defining "difficult" as a complex coding or systems task (or even series of them in a single prompt).

        1. Infinity315 · · focus · HN ↗
          I'm not an OpenAI simp, but how anyone can have any opinion on the performance of these models in less than a day - let alone a few hours - is beyond me.
          1. colinhb · · focus · HN ↗
            Yeah totally agree, people keep jumping in w&#x2F; strong views hours after release, eg: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49045430">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49045430
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