AI brief
OpenAI is offering steep discounts to win over Anthropic's customers, with companies including Rippling, Replit and DataCamp saying they cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has reportedly slowed as OpenAI trades margins for market share.
Why it matters: The discounts suggest price is becoming a main battleground in the competition between AI model providers for enterprise customers.
Written by AI from The Decoder's published text.
Background
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OpenAI
- Latest funding
- $30B · 31 Oct 2026
- Newest model on the API
- GPT-6.1 Terra Pro · 26 Oct 2026 · $1 in / $5 out per million tokens
Anthropic
- Latest funding
- Growth · $65B · 28 May 2026
- Newest model on the API
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 Oct 2026 · $0.1 in / $0.5 out per million tokens
Source
“OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has slowed, but OpenAI is trading its own margins for market share.”
Reporting from a publisher outside the organisation being covered.
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