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by rvz·1mo ago·view on hn ↗
Other than the worst naming I have ever seen (Sol / Terra / Luna), the pricing is still expensive:

> GPT‑5.6 is priced per 1M tokens across three model sizes:

> Sol is $5 input / $30 output;

> Terra is $2.50 input / $15 output

> Luna is $1 input / $6 output.

The OpenAI casino has never been more ready to take your money on gambling even more tokens.

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Note that GPT 5.5 currently is $5 input / $30 output (short context) so Sol is in the same class, while Terra if the benchmarks are as claimed is indeed a half-price GPT 5.5 at comparable performance.
With the $200/month plan I’ve never ran into any limits or issues. The product can be used every day for extensive sessions and development. What is everyone doing that makes them talk about tokens versus dollars?
If you've never hit the limits, why not do the $100/mo plan?
You can hit limits with $100 if you use it all day.

You can do it easily if you use in fast mode.

I bet you could hit the limits of the $200/month using fast mode if you were using multiple sessions at the same time all day on fast mode.

The OpenAI tiers seem pretty well tuned.

I used to use the plus ($20/month), and that was good for a few sessions every once in a while.

But now that I'm using it to configure my network, monitoring, maintenance, I'm using it every day and I'm on the $100 plan. And I do pretty consistently hit the limits, but it's easy to pace myself.

I'mam thinking about upgrading to $200/month though. It would be nice not to have to ration it.

From what my own experiences are, and what's on their checkout page, $100 is 5x base usage and $200 is 20x. If $100 was 10x, then I personally would drop down. They want people to go to the highest tier.
But let's put it in perspective: what you're paying them is more than the average salary in many poorer countries.
Fair. From a business perspective said amount is very reasonable in Europe / USA. For personal use it’s already different. Sometimes the answer is simple, thanks.
I ran out of usage using GPT-5.5 and had to buy a second subscription. I now switched to GPT-5.4 which is basically 2x usage.
Can't buy cheaper as a selling point when Deepseek is basically free when hitting cache? Unsubsidized too, cloudflare and digital ocean can be the model provider for similar pricing.
What don't you like about the naming?
I feel like going with Space + Latin is LLM-level creativity.

Edit: yeah. https://claude.ai/share/06fefe02-4299-44da-8c5a-42607f54ca77

Don't forget this.

> For GPT‑5.6 and later models, cache writes are billed at 1.25x the model’s uncached input rate

Charging for cache writes is cringe and literally only Anthropic did it. Anyway this does mean the "real" prices are +25% on top of what you wrote there.