{"id":1025153,"date":"2026-07-31T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025153"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:37:56","slug":"openai-cuts-prices-on-smaller-models-as-businesses-scrutinise-ai-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/openai-cuts-prices-on-smaller-models-as-businesses-scrutinise-ai-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI cuts prices on smaller models as businesses scrutinise AI spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI slashed prices of its low- and mid-tier AI models on Thursday, a \u200bmove that may intensify competition in \u200bthe industry as US companies battle cheaper Chinese rivals for customers \u200bincreasingly wary of the technology&#8217;s ballooning costs. <\/p>\n<p>The ChatGPT maker lowered the cost of its smaller GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80% and its mid-tier Terra by 20%, while leaving the price of its biggest and \u200cflagship Sol model \u2060unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI slashed prices of its low- and mid-tier AI models on Thursday, a \u200bmove that may intensify competition in \u200bthe industry as US companies battle cheaper Chinese rivals for customers \u200bincreasingly wary of the technology&#8217;s ballooning costs. The ChatGPT maker lowered the cost of its smaller GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80% and its mid-tier Terra by 20%, while leaving the price of its biggest and \u200cflagship Sol model \u2060unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025154,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025153\/revisions\/1025154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}