Yesterdays seat-race take is now a receipt. four frontier releases in four days, the best model in…
yesterdays seat-race take is now a receipt. four frontier releases in four days, the best model in the room is priced 2.5x the previous gen on api, and the harness is still where the seat sits.
nobody read that post who is not in procurement right now.
Context
OpenAI's pricing page supports the 2.5x ratio of gpt-6-astra over gpt-5.6-sol, against a promotional Sol price running at least to 21 November 2026. OpenAI's Astra page describes a Codex harness update, and GitHub's HydraFusion post of 4 September 2026 is a first-party example of a Copilot-side orchestration layer.
The seat-race post the note references was not identified. Four frontier releases in four days has no inspected evidence. The harness is still where the seat sits, and that nobody outside procurement read the earlier post, are the author's claims; no readership data exists.
Related work
- Project HydraFusion (GitHub Blog) ↗First-party.
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- Identify the referenced post; track API price changes.
Sources
- API pricing (OpenAI)developers.openai.com
- GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI)openai.com
Provenance
The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 7 September 2026 at 05:02 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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