Commercial software intelligenceEvidence checked · 8 September 2026
SkuTrace

Commercial product change, preserved as evidence.

SK-2026-167 · AI model pricing promotion

Cloudflare AI Gateway discounts GPT-5.6 Sol by 50% through 18 September

Cloudflare is applying a 50% GPT-5.6 Sol promotion for AI Gateway Unified Billing users through 18 September 2026. Promotional rates are $2.50 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M output tokens and $0.25 per 1M cache-read tokens; BYOK is excluded and requests return to standard pricing after the promotion.

Promotion active

Commercial transition

Previous stateAI Gateway Unified Billing did not have the announced temporary 50% GPT-5.6 Sol promotional rates in the SkuTrace corpus.
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New stateUnified Billing requests to openai/gpt-5.6-sol receive the announced 50% promotional token rates through 18 September 2026; BYOK is excluded and standard pricing resumes afterward.

Who is affected

Cloudflare AI Gateway customers routing GPT-5.6 Sol through Unified Billing during the promotion window.

Action required

Separate temporary promotional rates from standard rates in cost models, confirm Unified Billing rather than BYOK, and plan for standard pricing after 18 September 2026.

Evidence boundary

Cloudflare proves the Unified Billing-only promotion, the three promotional and standard token-rate pairs, and the 18 September 2026 end date. BYOK is excluded; no negotiated pricing, local tax treatment or unrelated model pricing is inferred.

Timeline

  1. GPT-5.6 Sol promotion begins

    Cloudflare announced automatic 50% promotional pricing for eligible AI Gateway Unified Billing requests.

  2. Promotion ends

    Cloudflare states GPT-5.6 Sol requests return to standard pricing after the promotion.

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