OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80%, and Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5. Token prices from leading US labs fell nearly 25% since mid-July, per Silicon Data's index, as Chinese rivals like Moonshot and DeepSeek gain traction.
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