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GPT-6.1 Sol

OpenAI · Balanced · Sep 29, 2026New

The mid-priced GPT-6 tier: within a point or two of Astra on most benchmarks at a fifth of the list price.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
51.8#6 of 29 · max effort
API price per 1M tokens
$2 / $10input / output · $4 blended
Context window
1.1Mup to 128K output tokens
Output speed
55 t/s5m 30s to first answer at max effort

Benchmark results

Each row shows this model (blue) against every other model in the catalogue (grey), worst on the left, best on the right.

Overall capability

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index51.8#6 of 29

    Max effort

    11.357.6
  • Epoch Capabilities Index166.1#3 of 16
    146.9167.3
  • LiveBench81.6%#4 of 23

    Max effort

    63.9%83.4%

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.058.2%#3 of 13

    Codex harness, max effort

    14.6%64.8%
  • Arena WebDev1,757#4 of 27

    Max effort

    1,2631,814

Agents & professional work

  • GDPval-AA1,575#13 of 18

    Max effort

    1,2421,866

Reasoning

  • ARC-AGI-294.2%#2 of 11

    Max effort

    42.4%95%
  • ARC-AGI-352.7%#2 of 5

    Max effort

    0.2%62.7%
  • FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)93.7%#1 of 14

    Max effort

    53%93.7%
  • MathArena90.1%#1 of 10

    Max effort

    35.3%90.1%
  • SimpleBench82.9%#4 of 12
    45.8%88.4%

Knowledge & science

  • GPQA Diamond95.4%#3 of 14

    Max effort

    90.2%95.8%

Multimodal

  • Arena Vision1,291#2 of 15

    Max effort

    1,1991,301

Human preference

  • Arena Text1,483#8 of 24

    Max effort

    1,4251,525

Reasoning effort trade-offs

The same model at different thinking budgets. More effort buys a higher intelligence score at a higher cost per task and a longer wait. Measured by Artificial Analysis.

EffortScoreCost / taskFirst answerSpeed
Low
42.1
$0.133.4s49 t/s
Medium
47.8
$0.218.8s50 t/s
High
50.2
$0.3261s51 t/s
Xhigh
51
$0.392m 28s53 t/s
Max (headline score)
51.8
$0.725m 30s55 t/s

Specs & pricing

Developer
OpenAI
Released
Sep 29, 2026
Availability
Generally available
API model ID
gpt-6.1-sol
Weights
Proprietary (API only)
Reasoning
Always on
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2026
Accepts
Text, Image
Produces
Text
Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Input price
$2 / 1M tokens
Output price
$10 / 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.10 / 1M tokens

Prompts above 272K input tokens are billed at twice the input price and 1.5 times the output price for the whole request.

Closest alternatives

Models from other labs nearest to GPT-6.1 Sol on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

  • Gemini 4 Argon

    Google

    Intelligence 52.6 · $2 / $10

    Compare side by side
  • Claude Fable 5.1

    Anthropic

    Intelligence 53.4 · $10 / $50

    Compare side by side
  • Muse Spark 1.3

    Meta

    Intelligence 48.1 · $1.25 / $4.25

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