Everything was cool, but $500 plan is a disaster tbh. Really shows how we will slowly lose usage and will be forced to pay more and more. I feel that nobody will buy it, and just switch to Claude 20x, there is no point in it.
Don’t yall feel like OpenAI is again falling in the loop of making more and more additional stuff, while Anthropic is constantly focused exactly on the most important, the model itself. I hope it does not end up as it did last time.
I think that they wanted to ship 6.1 Astra aswell that would actually be smarter, cheaper, and better than Opus 5.5, but it didn’t workout as everybody saw.
Because of that, Sam’s statement of having best intelligence did not work, they currently don’t.
Okay DevDay summary and my thoughts:
Bunch of stuff that we don’t care much about and you can check all that yourself!
GPT 6.1 Sol basically the best price/intellegence model nearly reaching Opus 5.5 level for fraction of the cost. For now I think Sol High is the go but I have to test, waiting for access.
Dots, basically Grok Bot powered by Astra and some features like calling it and maybe more, waiting for access.
Spaces, I guess simplified agent first Notion? Waiting for access.
And of course ultrafast and bunch of other stuff we peasants not getting.
6.1 Sol and Dots solid, but isn’t really what I expected from this.
Hi,
Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan.
Now that it's said, let me explain why this is happening and why you will still get more work done than if you were on the Pro $200 subscription one month ago.
(a) We didn't want to compromise in other ways and are committing to not reintroducing the 5h limit, so that you can fully use the weekly usage when you want.
(b) On the subscription, we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality. This means that you will continue to get more value per dollar spent as a result of models getting more efficient and us passing down the improvements in the form of API price reductions.
(c) We don't want to put an incentive on ourselves to artificially inflate the API list prices to make it look like you are getting a lot (and workaround it through discounts, etc). Instead we want to continue to both rapidly reduce prices and increase capabilities of models on the API. This week we introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 50% of their previous price. Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent.
(d) Tomorrow, we are adding more things to the subscription that won't draw on the usage, I won't reveal what that is yet.
I wanted to be transparent before all the big announcements tomorrow. Lots of new exciting things are coming to the subscriptions that will make it super compelling, but I wanted to make sure to share this change ahead of time so you can all understand it before we shower you with good news.
Codexingly,
Tibo
Okay I guess the issue with Sonnet 5.5 is the max reasoning. In xhigh and high, pretty good price per intelligence. Not an insane release for me though, Opus 5.5 was.