OpenAI Weighs AI Price Cuts as Anthropic Tops It With $965 Billion Valuation
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Updated · CNBC · Jun 11
OpenAI Weighs AI Price Cuts as Anthropic Tops It With $965 Billion Valuation
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Jun 11
Summary
$8, $20 and $100-plus GPT-5.5 subscription tiers could be cut as OpenAI considers lowering token prices, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter.
The move is aimed at pulling users from Anthropic and getting ahead of expected price cuts there, intensifying a rivalry that has spread from products to pricing.
Anthropic charges $17 a month for Claude Pro and $100-plus for Claude Max, and its May 28 Series H round valued it at $965 billion, above OpenAI's $852 billion March valuation.
That competition has also reached capital markets: OpenAI confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO on Monday, shortly after Anthropic's own filing.
OpenAI enters the pricing fight with scale—ChatGPT hit 1 billion monthly app users in May, a milestone Sensor Tower says it reached faster than Google Maps did.