GPT-5.5 Price Increase Analysis Published — OpenRouter Documents New Cost Structure as OpenAI Raises API Pricing

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OpenRouter published a cost analysis of GPT-5.5's pricing structure, hitting the HN frontpage on May 8 with 44 points. The price increase signals OpenAI's shift toward premium pricing for frontier models. For builders running multi-agent pipelines or high-volume inference, this changes the cost calculus for model selection — especially relevant for teams choosing between GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.6, and open-weight alternatives like DeepSeek V4 Flash or Zyphra ZAYA1-8B for different workload tiers.