OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at Claude Fable 5.1's $10/$50 rate
The new model costs 2.5x more per token than GPT-5.6 Sol's current promotional rate, putting the premium on autonomous work.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X - @DanDr1s
Why it matters
OpenAI and Anthropic have converged on a $10/$50 frontier-model price, shifting competition toward completed-task cost, reliability and the human labor their agents can replace.
OpenAI priced GPT-6 Astra at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, matching Anthropic's rate for Claude Fable 5.1 as the two labs compete to sell increasingly autonomous models into the same high-value work.
Dan (@DanDr1s) flagged the price parity in a thread on X on September 3rd. Launch reporting from VentureBeat also listed the same standard API rates and identified the developer model as gpt-6-astra.…
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.