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The title looks to be misleading, since this price cut is limited to OpenRouter. It does not apply for the native OpenAI price listed at https://developers.open
by OutOfHere 2mo ago
The title looks to be misleading, since this price cut is limited to OpenRouter. It does not apply for the native OpenAI price listed at https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol
- paxys 2mo agoWhich raises the question - who is subsidizing this, and why?
- internetter 2mo agoPossibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market. OpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662 https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662
- paxys 2mo agoIs this captive audience not going to switch providers for a 50% discount? Especially when the effort is simply swapping one URL for another?
- maxnevermind 2mo agoWhy though, to AB test/see the impact of a price cut on a platform with multiple competitors?
- OutOfHere 2mo agoOpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions.
- prime_ursid 2mo agoWouldn’t that be against TOS?
- OutOfHere 2mo agoIt might be through a level of indirection via an intermediate provider, offloading the TOS issue to the intermediate provider who couldn't care less.
- matchagaucho 2mo agoRight? Should we switch from direct OpenAI API integration to OpenRouter? What's the incentive here? Open Responses API doesn't appear to support state management (yet)
- baimoqilin 2mo ago[dead]
- jrflo 2mo agoYes, and it's only for a month. This is an ad.
- user43928 2mo agoOpenRouter and the Vercel AI Gateway. So yes, presumably a very small share of their total traffic.