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OpenAI · GPT-6

GPT-6 Sol

Closed weightsGenerally availableNewproprietary

OpenAI's mid-tier GPT-6 model for general and coding workloads, replacing GPT-5.6 Sol at lower cost.

AA Intelligence
47.5#7 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$2.00/ $10.00
Output speed
87tok/s
Context window
1.05M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#7 of 142
    48independentAA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#7 of 88
    43.9%independentTerminal-Bench 4.0 (AA harness), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • SciCode#12 of 94
    57.6%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#20 of 103
    1487independentGDPval-AA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • OSWorld-Verified#14 of 16
    60.5%vendorOSWorld 2.0 offline, xhighOpenAI: Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#11 of 147
    47.9%independentno tools (AA), max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#4 of 139
    30.9%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#8 of 139
    83.7%independentmax effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#8 of 72
    83.3%independentAA, max effortArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena WebDev#5 of 54
    1686independentgpt-6-sol-max, 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 effort27.1 index (-100 to 100)independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗
AutomationBench-AA (partial score) · max effort61.6%independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗
Terminal-Bench Science (AA) · max effort30%independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) ↗
AA Coding Agent Index v1.5 · Codex + GPT-6 Sol (max); DeepSWE 69.0 / SWE-Atlas-QnA 57.5 / TB4 43.456.7 indexindependentArtificial Analysis Coding Agents ↗
Agents' Last Exam · max56.4%vendorOpenAI: Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna ↗
DeepSWE v1.1 · max68.8%vendorOpenAI: Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna ↗
AutomationBench · xhigh ($0.27/task)33.2%vendorOpenAI: Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna ↗

Specs

Released
September 22, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
1.05M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Cached input
$0.20 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$4.40 / 1M
First token
165.10s
  • Price: OpenAI API pricing ↗ Standard, short context. Long context $4 in / $15 out. Cache write $2.50.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: GPT-6 Sol (max) (median output speed; TTFT is time to first chunk incl. reasoning) ↗

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