Report: OpenAI lands over 670 million annual deal! Offering steep discounts, free credits, and engineers—all to poach Anthropic's customers.

What happened: OpenAI offered steep model discounts, free credits and engineer support to win enterprise customers from Anthropic, and Replit moved most of its AI spending to OpenAI. Key numbers: Replit contract valued at over $100 million annually. OpenAI discount over 30%. Why it matters: The report says discounts help OpenAI win customers but add pressure on its costs, while Anthropic retains pricing power from coding model performance and regained the top spot in OpenRouter customer spending after cutting Opus 5.5 API prices.

OpenAI offered steep model discounts, free credits and engineer support to win enterprise customers from Anthropic, and Replit moved most of its AI spending to OpenAI.

The report says discounts help OpenAI win customers but add pressure on its costs, while Anthropic retains pricing power from coding model performance and regained the top spot in OpenRouter customer spending after cutting Opus 5.5 API prices.