PRICE WAR: Anthropic, OpenAI Models Make Same Promise—More Power, Less Money...

Anthropic and OpenAI are both betting that cost cuts matter more than raw capability gains right now. Anthropic's new Opus 5.5 cuts input prices to $4 per million tokens (20% down) and cache reads to $0.20 per million (60% down), while OpenAI refreshed its Sol and Luna models to compete on efficiency rather than pushing performance boundaries. The real pressure: enterprise customers are increasingly using cheaper open-source models or routing requests to smaller, specialized AI systems instead of paying premium prices for flagship tools, forcing both companies to squeeze margins and prove their expensive models are still worth the cost.