minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
OpenAI and Anthropic repeatedly cut LLM prices between June and September 2026, with reductions of up to 80% on some models. The author attributes the cuts to commodity-like models, competing open-weight providers on OpenRouter, and cheaper cache reads, and rejects the idea that prices will suddenly rise.
— via Hacker News (top 30), minimaxir
