--- title: OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals... description: OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices on their AI models as cost-conscious enterprise customers increasingly switch to cheaper Chinese alternatives like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-and-anthropic-in-price-war-as-chinese-ai-rivals-gain-ground-mky21zhoo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices on their AI models as cost-conscious enterprise customers increasingly switch to cheaper Chinese alternatives like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-and-anthropic-in-price-war-as-chinese-ai-rivals-gain-ground-mky21zhoo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mKY21ZhOo.png og:image:alt: OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices on their AI models as cost-conscious enterprise customers increasingly switch to cheaper Chinese alternatives like Moonshot and DeepSeek. OpenAI cut prices on GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent, while Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable 5 flagship. Silicon Data's token price index shows prices from leading US labs have dropped nearly 25 percent since mid-July. The shift toward usage-based billing, combined with rising bills, has pushed companies like DoorDash and Airbnb to adopt Chinese-made models, even as OpenAI and Anthropic pursue trillion-dollar IPO valuations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much did OpenAI cut prices for GPT-5.6 Luna? OpenAI cut prices for GPT-5.6 Luna, described as its fastest and most affordable model, by 80 percent. This move came amid a broader price war as OpenAI and Anthropic compete to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cheaper Chinese alternatives like Moonshot and DeepSeek. _Track shifting model pricing on daily.dev before locking in your next API budget._ ### How is Claude Opus 5 priced compared to Anthropic's Fable 5 model? Claude Opus 5 is priced at half the cost of Fable 5, Anthropic's most capable model, while still being marketed as offering frontier intelligence. This pricing move is part of a broader industry price war triggered by competition from cheaper Chinese AI models. _Compare evolving Claude pricing tiers on daily.dev when picking a model for your workload._ ### Why are companies like DoorDash and Airbnb switching to Chinese AI models? DoorDash and Airbnb have started using Chinese-made AI models to rein in rising bills, as Anthropic and OpenAI shift enterprise customers from flat subscriptions toward usage-based billing tied to computational resource consumption. Chinese labs including Moonshot and DeepSeek have narrowed the performance gap while offering lower costs, pushing US token prices down nearly a quarter since mid-July. _Weigh model cost and performance trade-offs on daily.dev before switching providers._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. 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