Probably even higher because openai and anthropic undoubtably have the lowest cost per token generated, especially with cerebras being able to serve a million tokens every 16 minutes.

Yeah, if they didn't buy up all the ram and ssd's, they would have imploded.. maybe they should have stayed public benefit/open after all...

Does anyone know who/what hardware serves Deepseek official for US and EU customers? And where it is located?

The margin is defined as (price-cost of goods)/(price); the highest it can be is 100%.

Nope.

Their X post[1] indicated that they've been trying to combat reselling subscription plans via token API gateways and at the same time many, many people, myself included, have seen a drastic drop in available weekly capacity for the same amount of queries/tokens, all else being equal. So they may be trying to make subscriptions and API access more equal to each other from both ends.

1. https://xcancel.com/thsottiaux/status/2090675027670978569#m

It’s currently 50% off on OpenRouter even.

OpenRouter is already offering Sol at a 50% promotional discount. https://openrouter.ai/collections/discounted-models

“GPT-5.6 Sol is available at promotional pricing, 50% off standard rates, through September 3, 2026. The default tier is $2.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.20 per 1M cached input tokens, $2.50 per 1M cache write tokens, and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. The long context tier is $4.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.40 per 1M cached input tokens, $5.00 per 1M cache write tokens, and $15.00 per 1M output tokens.”

> without a better model in the wing

I believe Astra is the next model beyond Sol? They used it for https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

It seems that they lack a holistic strategy. All these decisions probably make sense in isolation but together they create a huge mess.

Given the increased pressure from open weight models (still 6 months behind but now more than good enough for most use cases) the frontier labs really have to step up their game.

Switching is as easy as typing /model in most harnesses so there's effectively zero moat.

> without a better model in the wing ...

How do you know they don’t?

> is altman playing 4d chess or something I'm not aware of?

Anthropic just removed a discount on Fable, while people are simultaneously getting sick of reading fable and opus talking about “the load bearing texture” and “color of the blanket”.

Maybe it’s just good marketing.