AI Pricing

OpenAI is reportedly offering enterprise discounts of up to 90% to win major customers away from Anthropic, with Replit, Rippling and DataCamp all shifting a large share of their AI spending to OpenAI, according to reporting by The Information. Full story in slides above. Sources: The Information (via The Decoder, AI Weekly and other coverage), October 24-25, 2026.

Google is restricting free Gemini accounts to the Flash-Lite model only starting October 9, 2026, while the $4.99-a-month AI Plus tier also loses access to the Pro model. Sources: The Verge, TechRepublic, Times of India — October 9, 2026.

Anthropic dropped its newest small model on Wednesday, and the pitch is simple: do 75 percent more for 75 percent less. Claude Haiku 5.5, released October 7, is the company’s cheapest, fastest small model to date. It undercuts both its predecessor and OpenAI’s budget rival on price while beating them on several benchmarks. “Claude Haiku 5.5 is designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks,” Anthropic said in the launch announcement. “It reliably handles quick and repetitive workloads like summaries, compactions, database queries, and classification requests. It pairs well with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as a subagent on coding work. And, since it’s also our fastest model to date, it works especially well for speed-sensitive tasks like live customer support and browser use.” ...

The AI price war just went from background noise to front-page strategy. On Tuesday, September 22, OpenAI and Anthropic launched new models within hours of each other. Both launches centered on the same selling point: cheaper AI. OpenAI priced its GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models 50% below the promotional API rates of the GPT-5.6 models they replace. Anthropic said its Claude Opus 5.5 costs about 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. ...

On September 22, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 at roughly 40% lower cost than Opus 5, and about 90 minutes later OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half of last generation’s prices. Full breakdown in the slides above. Sources: Simon Willison (simonwillison.net), AI Explainer India, Intelligibberish, AI Briefing Room citing Reuters — September 22–26, 2026.