I’ve been doing really heavy text analysis work with LLMs where false negatives/misses are important to minimize and my god did I hit cost thresholds quickly with 5.6 Luna — it was the first time I felt motivated to seriously work with local open models, even if inference was degraded for the task. Cheaper and much better inference now brings me back to the closed models for better or worse.

5.6 Luna was already discounted at half the price on OpenRouter. Looks like they made it permanent.

Hopefully Terra 6 slots somewhat nicely into this space.

Yes, I am mildly disappointed with these releases.

I expected a Fable 5 -> Opus 5 situation, where GPT 6 Sol would perform on par with GPT 6 Astra.

Instead it's more like a price cut on GPT 5.6 Sol, and I'll have to stick with Astra for my work.

The only thing I can hope for is that more users switching to the GPT 6 Sol model frees capacity, allowing OpenAI to hand out some usage resets.

Yeah me too. Maybe that place will occupy the Astra Minor model that appeared in Microsoft's Azure model config. As Sol and Sonnet are now similarly priced (unless Sonnet 5.5 will reduce its price).

Good point!

Maybe they are keeping the cheaper Astra alternative back for their Dev Day next week Tuesday.