@adlrocha - Why Are Tokens Getting Cheaper?

I’ve spent the last week working with Opus 5.5 and I’m loving it (except for those annoying safety filters that trigger whenever you mention something security-related, no matter what). It’s significantly better than Opus 5, and cheaper ($20 per million output tokens compared to the $25 of Opus 5). And this wasn’t the only recent release that landed with more intelligence at a lower price.In the space of eight days, xAI shipped Grok 4.7 at $6 per million output tokens, OpenAI released GPT-6 and halved its prices, and Anthropic launched Opus 5.5 at $20 per million output instead of $25 and raised the usage limits on its subscription. Then Anthropic released Sonnet 5.5, which scores within two points of Opus on its knowledge-work benchmark for half the price. And to add to all of that, this week OpenAI followed up with GPT-6.1 Sol, which completely obliterates prices at $2 ($0.10 cached) per million input tokens. All of them are smarter (according to benchmarks) than the model they…