OpenAI Halves Prices With GPT-6.1 Terra Before Earnings Week

OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, pricing its newest model at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, a reduction the company says represents a 50% cut from GPT-5.6 Terra’s rates, OpenAI announced. The timing places a new price benchmark in front of investors two days before Microsoft and Alphabet report quarterly earnings after the close on October 28. GPT-6.1 Terra is available immediately to Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu subscribers through ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex, and to developers through the API under the model string “gpt-6.1-terra,” OpenAI stated. The company positioned the model as a cost-efficient option for high-volume tasks that do not require the reasoning depth of its Sol or Astra models, which OpenAI still recommends for complex coding and multi-step problem…