Is GPT-5.6 Sol dumber today?
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What GPT-5.6 Sol costs
- Input
- $5.00 /1M tokens
- Output
- $30.00 /1M tokens
- Cached input
- $0.50 /1M tokens
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
- Released
- July 9, 2026
Main pricing page lists $5 / $30. OpenAI's model page shows a promotional $4 / $20. Prompts over 272K tokens: 2x input, 1.5x output.
Batch API: 50% off input and output.
| 1,000 chat messages1,500 tokens in, 500 out each | $22.50 |
|---|---|
| Summarize a 50-page PDF30,000 tokens in, 1,000 out | $0.18 |
| One coding-agent task60,000 tokens in, 4,000 out, no caching | $0.42 |
Checked September 28, 2026. Official pricing · Status page
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GPT-5.6 Sol: common questions
How much does GPT-5.6 Sol cost?
Through the OpenAI API, GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $30.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.50. That works out to about $22.50 for 1,000 typical chat messages. Prices checked September 28, 2026. The Batch API halves both prices. Main pricing page lists $5 / $30. OpenAI's model page shows a promotional $4 / $20. Prompts over 272K tokens: 2x input, 1.5x output.
Is GPT-5.6 Sol dumber today?
The rating at the top of this page shows how people who used GPT-5.6 Sol today rate it, from Lobotomized to Big brain, and the chart shows the last 30 days next to releases and official incidents. Ratings are opinions, not a benchmark. For outages, check the OpenAI status page.
What is GPT-5.6 Sol's context window?
GPT-5.6 Sol accepts up to 1.05M tokens of input in one request.
When was GPT-5.6 Sol released?
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol on July 9, 2026. See every release and incident on the news page.
What are cheaper alternatives to GPT-5.6 Sol?
Among frontier models, Grok 4.7 ($6.00 per 1,000 chats), Gemini 3.1 Pro ($9.00 per 1,000 chats), Claude Opus 5.5 ($16.00 per 1,000 chats) cost less for a typical chat workload. Compare everything in the cost calculator.