GPT-6 Sol

Newer version available: GPT-6.1 Sol

Released
2026-09-22
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 26d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool useAgentCodingHighlight
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Specifications
Family
GPT-6
Released
2026-09-22
Context
1.05M
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-04
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$10.00
Input / 1M
$2.00

Cheapest of 4 routes · OpenAI API · cache read $0.200

About

OpenAI GPT-6 Sol, announced September 22, 2026 with GPT-6 Luna, expands the GPT-6 family below flagship GPT-6 Astra for cost-efficient complex coding and agentic workflows. First-party OpenAI API id gpt-6-sol. Docs: 1,050,000 context, 128,000 max output, knowledge cutoff Apr 20, 2026, text and image input to text output, reasoning effort none/low/medium/high/xhigh/max, function calling, structured outputs, prompt caching, Batch and Flex at 50% of Standard, Fast mode at 2x, and computer use and code interpreter via Responses tools.

Providers(4)

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Compare API pricing across 4 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MBatch in / outCacheRoute
OpenAI API$2.00$10.00$1.00 / $5.00read $0.200
Serverless
AWS Bedrock$2.00$10.00-read $0.200
Serverless
Azure OpenAI$2.00$10.00-read $0.200
ServerlessProvisioned
OpenRouter$2.00$10.00-read $0.200
Serverless

Available via routers & gateways(17)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

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OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeOpenAI API

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionOpenAI APIAzure OpenAI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS Bedrock's native prompt router that predicts each model's performance per request and routes between two models of the same family (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama or Amazon Nova).

Passthrough + feeAWS Bedrock

Azure AI Foundry Model Router

Router

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.

Passthrough + feeAzure OpenAI

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch API

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(7)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
89.6ARC-AGI-2 semi-privateObserved 2026-10-01
Configuration: gpt-6-sol (Max)
Harness: ARC Prize semi-private evaluation
Evaluator: ARC Prize Foundation
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: ARC Prize official leaderboard data (ARC-AGI-2 semi-private), verified in https://arcprize.org/media/data/leaderboard/v2.json (generatedAt 2026-10-01T18:51Z) for modelDisplayName 'GPT-6 Sol (Max)'. Highest-scoring published effort selected. Discovered via Benchmark Heaven / Epoch AI mirror (lead only).
49.3FrontierCode 1.1 MainObserved 2026-10-05
Configuration: gpt-6-sol (Max)
Harness: codex
Evaluator: Cognition
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: Cognition FrontierCode 1.1 Main (100 tasks) mean@5 composite ('new_score'), verified in https://cognition.com/data/frontiercode-leaderboard/data.json (the data file behind https://cognition.com/frontiercode), retrieved 2026-10-05. Agent harness: codex. Highest-scoring published effort selected; timestamp is retrieval date.
90.0FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (private)Observed 2026-09-22
Configuration: gpt-6-sol (Max)
Harness: Epoch AI FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 private set
Evaluator: Epoch AI
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: Epoch AI-run evaluation (evaluator of record), from Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub data download https://epoch.ai/data/benchmark_data.zip (file frontiermath_tier_4_v2.csv, row 'gpt-6-sol_max', run started 2026-09-22). Epoch data is CC BY 4.0: credit 'Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Highest-scoring Epoch configuration for this model selected; other configurations exist in the same file. Discovered via Benchmark Heaven (lead only).
94.3diamondObserved 2026-09-22
Configuration: gpt-6-sol (Max)
Harness: Epoch AI Inspect harness (GPQA Diamond, 198 Q)
Evaluator: Epoch AI
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: Epoch AI-run evaluation (evaluator of record), from Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub data download https://epoch.ai/data/benchmark_data.zip (file gpqa_diamond.csv, row 'gpt-6-sol_max', run started 2026-09-22). Epoch data is CC BY 4.0: credit 'Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Highest-scoring Epoch configuration for this model selected; other configurations exist in the same file. Discovered via Benchmark Heaven (lead only).
1266.0vision_style_control overall 2026-10-19 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26
Configuration: GPT-6 Sol (Max)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena vision style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-19 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split). Board entry 'GPT-6 Sol (Max)': rank 39, Arena Score 1266.0 (95% CI 1254.7-1277.4), 3221 votes. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

1459.0text_style_control overall 2026-10-22 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26
Configuration: GPT-6 Sol (Max)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split). Board entry 'GPT-6 Sol (Max)': rank 62, Arena Score 1459.0 (95% CI 1453.0-1465.1), 14707 votes. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

1377.0text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22
Configuration: GPT-6 Sol (Max)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'GPT-6 Sol (Max)' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 134 of 416, rating 1377.4 (95% CI 1365.9-1389.0), 3130 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

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API versions

gpt-6-solGPT-6 Sol