OpenAI and Anthropic are emphasizing lower-cost AI options as open-weight models attract more enterprise workloads.
Cost is becoming a bigger factor in AI model selection, particularly for high-volume and less demanding workloads. Several Chinese vendors now offer models that compete with leading US models on certain benchmarks while charging less per token.
OpenAI said it cut prices for its lower-cost GPT-5.6 Luna model by as much as 80%, depending on the type of token usage. Anthropic has also emphasized price in marketing Opus 5, which it says offers “frontier intelligence” at half the price of Mythos. Its Sonnet model is positioned as a…
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