[arnaudsm]

#1 models are usually priced at 2x more than the competition, and they often decrease the price right when they lose the crown.

[wewtyflakes]

There are too few examples to say this is a trend. There have been counterexamples of top models actually lowering the pricing bar (gpt-5, gpt-3.5-turbo, some gemini releases were even totally free [at first]).