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OpenAI · GPT-5.6

GPT-5.6 Sol

Closed weightsSupersededproprietary

Previous-generation OpenAI flagship, still offered via API at promotional pricing; superseded by GPT-6 Sol.

AA Intelligence
47#8 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$4.00/ $20.00
Output speed
79tok/s
Context window
1.05M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#8 of 142
    47independentAA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#9 of 88
    39.9%independentTerminal-Bench 4.0 (AA harness), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#8 of 103
    88%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1 (AA harness), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#16 of 94
    57.1%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#15 of 103
    1588independentGDPval-AA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • τ²-Bench#26 of 88
    85.1%independenttelecom (AA), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • BrowseComp#3 of 14
    90.4%vendormax at any effort (from GPT-6 Astra comparison table)OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

  • OSWorld-Verified#13 of 16
    65.7%vendorOSWorld 2.0 offline (from GPT-6 Astra comparison table)OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#7 of 147
    49.5%independentno tools (AA), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • GPQA Diamond#8 of 142
    94.1%independentAA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • CritPt#1 of 139
    32.3%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • ARC-AGI-2#3 of 25
    92.5%independentsemi-private, MaxARC Prize leaderboard ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 95%

  • ARC-AGI-3#4 of 9
    7.8%independentsemi-private, MaxARC Prize leaderboard ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 62.7%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#6 of 139
    84%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#7 of 72
    83.4%independentAA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#11 of 54
    1483independentgpt-5.6-sol-xhigh, style control default, vote cutoff 2026-09-13LMArena Text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#17 of 54
    1617independentgpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (Codex harness), LMArena Code arena (formerly WebDev), vote cutoff 2026-09-23LMArena Code (WebDev) leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
AA-Omniscience Index · max effort22 index (-100 to 100)independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗
AutomationBench-AA (partial score) · max effort60.1%independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗
Terminal-Bench Science (AA) · max effort22.4%independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) ↗
AA Coding Agent Index v1.5 · Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol (max); DeepSWE 72.3 / SWE-Atlas-QnA 54.0 / TB4 37.454.6 indexindependentArtificial Analysis Coding Agents ↗
Agents' Last Exam · max at any effort53.6%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
DeepSWE v1.1 · max at any effort72.7%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗

Specs

Released
July 9, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
1.05M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Cached input
$0.40 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$8.80 / 1M
First token
105.20s
  • Price: OpenAI API pricing ↗ Promotional standard price, available at least through 2026-11-21 (was $5/$30). Long context $8/$30.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: GPT-5.6 Sol (max) (median output speed; TTFT is time to first chunk incl. reasoning) ↗

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