OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon both launch at identical $2/$10 pricing
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-02
A viral thread argues the twin launches of OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and Google's Gemini 4 Argon carry a major economic signal:
- GPT-6.1 Sol: $2/M input, $10/M output — 1/5 of Astra's standard token price; reportedly scores 71.4% vs Astra's 73.5% on an eval at roughly 1/7 the API cost per task
- Gemini 4 Argon: identical $2/$10 pricing with 95% discounted cached input, a 1M-token output limit, explicitly built for long-running multi-step agentic work; Google says it has already optimized data-center memory usage, run profile-guided coding experiments and huge C/C++ to Rust migrations
- Takeaway: both frontier labs are making cheap, long-running agent work the battleground
Note: figures are as relayed in the post, not officially confirmed.
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