If A-1 gave 86 to another studio, would the price for season 2 increase or be zero?

Studios don't decide what anime gets made, production committees do. Production committees are a group of stakeholders usually including the manga publishers, toy/figure makers, music labels and streaming services.

Each member of a production committee contributes to the budget of the anime in the hopes that it will increase sales of their specific products.

If an anime is not considered popular enough to make a return on their investment then it will simply not get made.

Anime has historically, and even today, been produced as a form of advertisement for other products, usually the manga/light novels. That is why the majority of anime only get one season and then you need to go and read the manga to learn how the story ends. It has only been very recently that we are seeing stories get animated to completion.

Aniplex is part of the production committee, and they also own A-1. Even if they change the studio, that doesn't mean that it will get the same team.

How could we know?

No one here knows anything about the inner workings of any of these businesses.

> the next solo leveling project will be released in 2026

People need to stop getting their anime news of TikTok accounts with inaccurate information.

(I saw that the next solo leveling project will be released in 2026) they share literally 0 people and are not even made in the same prod line

so that doesn't matter

here is the thing A-1 really doesn't decide anything they dont produce the show just animate it

is the committee that decides if they want to green lit a new season and when

like you said they might release a new SL thing next year but A-1 said they would prefer to wait until 2028

I think that we are in a span of time where, if the 86 anime is ever going to be continued, it will be continued soon. Why, you ask? Supposedly, the novels are on their final arc now. One imagines that this will be the peak popularity for the series. Once the last novel is out, whatever hype there is will dwindle.