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GPT-5.6 Sol

by OpenAI

Current new · 23d flagship expensive tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$5.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$30.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$17.50

avg of input & output $/1M

Cached input

$0.500

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official OpenAI pricing · read Jul 9, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-01

Overview

OpenAI's highest-intelligence GPT-5.6 tier. Sol/Terra/Luna are durable capability tiers replacing the numbered-variant scheme; Sol targets the hardest coding, agentic, and research workloads. 1.05M context, 128K max output, text + image input. $5/$30 per 1M tokens (cached input $0.50).

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score83.8%
Perf per $/Mtok4.8
GPQA Diamond
94.6%
SWE-Bench Verified
96.2%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
88.8%
BrowseComp
92.2%
OSWorld-Verified
62.6%
Humanity's Last Exam
47.2%
ARC-AGI 2
92.5%
HumanEval
96.2%
AutoBench *
18.1%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 58.9 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 54 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 21.7 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1732.5 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1482.8 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #6 of 68 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #6 of 133 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 13 independent measurements
  • Ranks #117 of 133 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at SWE-Bench Verified — 96.2%, #1 of 30

53.9 tokens/sec output

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated Aug 1, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
OpenAI
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Jul 9, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Jul 9, 2026
Tags
reasoningmultimodalflagship

Availability verified: Jul 9, 2026 — listed on OpenAI's own page