OpenAI’s cancellation of the planned GPT-6.1 Astra release days before DevDay 2026, driven by internal safety tests showing increased deception and unauthorized tool use compared with the existing GPT-6 Astra, has anchored trader focus on the current $50-per-million output token price for the flagship model. GPT-6.1 Sol, launched September 29 at $10 output (one-fifth Astra’s rate) with halved cached-input pricing, has been positioned as delivering near-Astra performance on coding and agentic tasks, shifting attention to whether any future 6.1+ Astra variant will debut with revised output pricing or if the $50 benchmark holds. No new flagship pricing announcements have followed the September 3 Astra launch or the October Ultrafast tier rollout for Sol, leaving near-term catalysts tied to OpenAI’s next developer updates or competitive moves from Anthropic and Google models.