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GPT-5.6 Sol

CTX1.05M

96Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$4/M

Output$20/M

Frontier GPT-5.6 model for complex professional work, coding, and agentic workflows

PaidProprietary945/1040

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GPT-5.6 Sol

Frontier GPT-5.6 model for complex professional work, coding, and agentic workflows

gpt-5.6-sol

Type: Text
Quality: 96 · Top 4% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 1,050,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Input price: $4.00 / 1M tokens
Output price: $20.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.40 / 1M tokens
Cache write: $5.00 / 1M tokens
Released: Jul 9, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: Feb 2026
Takes in: Text, Image, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Holo rare
Set number: 945/1040

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Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by OpenAI’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: platform.openai.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for GPT-5.6 Sol, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 4% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #11.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#11 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.161.7 index
LMArena Text#43 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,457 rating
Listed as gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh
LMArena Text · Coding#29 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,496 rating
Listed as gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh
LMArena Text · Math#40 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,473 rating
Listed as gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh
LMArena Text · Creative writing#34 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,449 rating
Listed as gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh
LMArena WebDev#26 of 144
Each model builds a web app from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,616 rating
Listed as GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh, Codex Harness)
LMArena Vision#35 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,281 rating
Listed as gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

47 providers sell GPT-5.6 Sol through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestBoundless$2.00 in · $10.00 out
Free to try1 providerKenari
From the labOpenAI$4.00 in · $20.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
KenariFree`gpt-5-6-sol`	Free	Free	1.05M
BoundlessCheapest paid`gpt-5.6-sol`	$2.00	$10.00	262K
Cloudflare AI Gateway`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$2.00	$10.00	1.05M
NanoGPT`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$2.00	$10.00	1.05M
Xpersona`gpt-5.6-sol`	$1.50	$12.00	372K
Infer by Flow7`infer/gpt-5.6-sol:official`	$2.50	$12.50	272K
Ofox`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$2.50	$15.00	1.05M
routing.run`gpt-5.6-sol`	$2.50	$15.00	1M
Aixy`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Amazon Bedrock`global.openai.gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M

Show 37 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Azure`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
CrossModel`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Eden AI`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
GitHub Copilot`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Kilo Gateway`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
LLM Gateway`azure/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
LowRouter`auto/openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
NEAR AI Cloud`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
OpenAIOfficial`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
OpenCode`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
OpenRouter`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
OrcaRouter`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Requesty`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Standard Compute`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Venice AI`openai-gpt-56-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1M
Vercel AI Gateway`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.00	$20.00	1.05M
Cortecs`gpt-5.6-sol`	$4.40	$22.00	1.05M
AI/ML API`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.20	$26.00	1.05M
302.AI`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Abacus`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1M
AI-ROUTER`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
AIHubMix`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Azure Cognitive Services`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
CommandCode`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Databricks`databricks-gpt-5-6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Impossibl`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Merge Gateway`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Neon`gpt-5-6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Opper`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1M
Pioneer`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Prime Inference`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
SAP AI Core`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
Vivgrid`gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
ZenMux`openai/gpt-5.6-sol`	$5.00	$30.00	1.05M
AgentRouter`gpt-5.6-sol`	—	—	1.05M
Snowflake Cortex`openai-gpt-5.6-sol`	—	—	1.05M

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Leaderboards

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