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GPT-5.6 Sol

by OpenAI

Current 🔥 New · 0d flagship expensive tier

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input
$5.00
per million tokens
Output
$30.00
per million tokens
Cached input$0.500/Mtok (10% of input — prompt caching)
Blended avg cost*$17.50/Mtok

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

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

Specifications

ProviderOpenAI
Context window1M tokens
Modalitytext, image
ParametersProprietary
Open sourceNo — proprietary
ReleasedJul 9, 2026
StatusCurrent
Last updatedJul 9, 2026
Tagsreasoning multimodal flagship

Cost calculator

1K tokens (in)$0.005
1K tokens (out)$0.030
100K tokens (in)$0.500
100K tokens (out)$3.00
1M tokens (in)$5.00
1M tokens (out)$30.00
10M tokens (blended)$175.00
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At a glance

Input$5.00/M
Output$30.00/M
Blended$17.50/M
Context1M
Tierexpensive

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