GPT-5.6 Sol Is Now 50% Cheaper — Here's What That Actually Means for Developers
GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI’s most capable model, is now $2.50/M input and $15/M output via Batch/Flex and OpenRouter—50% below the standard $5/$30 ...
Aug 18, 2026
6 min
How Chinese Models Actually Took Over OpenRouter, Month by Month
Two numbers—1.2% and 46%—capture the same 18-month rise of Chinese open-weight models on OpenRouter, but each reflects different evidence. T...
Jul 13, 2026
8 min
Chinese Open-Weight Models Just Won OpenRouter's Token War. They Still Haven't Won the Dollar War.
Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and Qwen now account for 30-46% of US company traffic on OpenRouter, and up to 61% in n...
Jul 8, 2026
12 min