theo on OpenAI's $500/mo tier: GPT-6.1 Sol lowest-margin yet, BYOI is the real innovation
jarrodwatts · x · 2026-09-30
theo's take on OpenAI's new $500/mo tier: you can't discuss it without the rug pull on the $200/mo plan, and GPT-6.1 Sol is the lowest-margin model they've shipped — "ultrafast" is too expensive even for privileged users.
The real innovation he argues is "bring your own inference": sign in with ChatGPT and third-party apps can run on users' heavily subsidized subscription tokens — a huge win for developers who no longer bear inference costs.
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