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OpenAI · GPT-6

GPT-6 Astra

Closed weightsGenerally availableNewproprietary

OpenAI's top GPT-6 model for the hardest agentic, coding and research work, priced well above Sol and Luna.

AA Intelligence
52.7#3 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$10.00/ $50.00
Output speed
58tok/s
Context window
1.05M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#3 of 142
    53independentAA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#3 of 88
    59.1%independentTerminal-Bench 4.0 (AA harness), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#7 of 103
    88.4%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1 (AA harness), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#18 of 94
    56.5%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#17 of 103
    1542independentGDPval-AA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • BrowseComp#1 of 14
    91.5%vendormax at any effortOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

  • OSWorld-Verified#10 of 16
    72.6%vendorOSWorld 2.0 (v2026.08.08 offline, partial score), max at any effortOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#6 of 147
    54.7%independentno tools (AA), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • GPQA Diamond#1 of 142
    96.1%independentAA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • CritPt#2 of 139
    31.7%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • ARC-AGI-2#1 of 25
    95%independentsemi-private, Max, $1.12/taskARC Prize leaderboard ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 95%

  • ARC-AGI-3#1 of 9
    62.7%independentsemi-private, Max, standard harnessARC Prize leaderboard ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 62.7%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#25 of 139
    80.7%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#2 of 72
    86.9%independentAA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#15 of 54
    1480independentgpt-6-astra-max, style control default, vote cutoff 2026-09-13LMArena Text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#2 of 54
    1792independentgpt-6-astra-max (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 effort43.4 index (-100 to 100)independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗
AutomationBench-AA (partial score) · max effort68.5%independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗
Terminal-Bench Science (AA) · max effort63.3%independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) ↗
AA Coding Agent Index v1.5 · Codex + GPT-6 Astra (max); DeepSWE 67.6 / SWE-Atlas-QnA 61.8 / TB4 55.661.6 indexindependentArtificial Analysis Coding Agents ↗
Agents' Last Exam · max at any effort59.3%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
DeepSWE v1.1 · max at any effort74.1%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (vendor) · max at any effort57.9%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
HLE (with tools) · max at any effort57.2%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) · max at any effort97.6%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
ScreenSpot-Pro (no tools) · max at any effort92.7%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 (vendor) · max at any effort64.6%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
MRCR v2 8-needle 512K-1M · max at any effort96.3%vendorOpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ↗
ARC-AGI-3 (Provider Adapter harness) · Max, OpenAI Provider Adapter harness98.55%independentARC Prize: GPT-6 Astra ↗
AA Intelligence Index (xhigh) · AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, xhigh52.4 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) ↗

Specs

Released
September 3, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
1.05M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Cached input
$1.00 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$22.00 / 1M
First token
361.30s
  • Price: OpenAI API pricing ↗ Standard, short context (<=272K). Long context $20 in / $75 out. Cache write $12.50.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: GPT-6 Astra (max) (median output speed; TTFT is time to first chunk incl. reasoning) ↗

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