EP28: AI Just Got 80% Cheaper - And Your Bills Are Still Last Year's Price

In one month the entire price structure of frontier AI moved. On July 30 OpenAI cut the Luna tier by 80 percent, from one dollar and six to twenty cents and one twenty. On August 21 they cut the Sol flagship by twenty percent, from five and thirty to four and twenty, for the next three months. And on September 3 they released GPT-6 Astra, the new flagship, at ten dollars a million input tokens and fifty a million output. Meanwhile a Layer3Labs audit of forty small and mid-sized business AI stacks found that sixty-eight percent of SMBs are still paying more than double the current market rate, with a median of one thousand one hundred dollars a month in savings sitting unclaimed. Marcus and Jules break down why a price drop is a signal to renegotiate, not a discount to ignore, and walk through a four-step weekend playbook that costs zero dollars. Step one, inventory every AI subscription, API bill, and SaaS add-on in thirty minutes. Step two, tag each tool as routine, standard, or frontier. Step three, move ninety percent of routine work to the new cheap tier. Step four, add a one-sentence repricing clause to every annual contract. Includes the 2013 4G rollout parallel, the owners who renegotiated after the price collapse saved forty to sixty percent in year one, while the ones who let their contracts auto-renew paid the 3G price for 5G speed. Strategy packages at https://ai.advalorem.io/strategies/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ai_guy&utm_campaign=ep28_ai_cost_reprice. The AI Guy is part of the AdValorem podcast network. Voices and content are AI-generated.