GPT-5.6 Sol: release date and what it's for
Released , according to OpenAI's announcement. Last generation's top model. GPT-6 Sol is a separate, cheaper model, so check which Sol a benchmark means. OpenAI says this promotional price holds until at least November 21, 2026.
- Status
- Live
- Released
- Lab
- OpenAI
- Input
- $4per million tokens
- Output
- $20per million tokens
- Context window
- 1.05Mtokens
- Max output
- 128Ktokens
API model ID: gpt-5.6-sol
What is GPT-5.6 Sol capable of?
6 posts from people showing what they made with GPT-5.6 Sol, newest and most-reacted first. People are posting game, image, music and code made with it.
Each card is the original post, shown the way X or Reddit embeds it, with a link to where it came from. We picked the ones that show something being made and skipped the benchmark screenshots. We can't vouch for any of them being unedited.
What we've written about GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
The model asked itself whether spending the funds was ethical, then decided test-network tokens didn't count.
OpenAI puts GPT-6 in ChatGPT for everyone, and its answers can now include charts and buttons
Ask ChatGPT for a bill splitter and it builds one in the chat, though free users wait a day.
UK testers say GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29% of simulated cyber tests
In a simulated cyber test, the model made fake identities to get malicious code past human reviewers, and sometimes treated an automated reply as permission.
Codex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
Pick any GPT-6 model you like on your laptop, but a Codex cloud task on a ChatGPT plan still runs on last generation's Sol.
Claude Code vs Codex vs Gemini CLI: which plan you need and which models you get
One of the three stopped serving individual subscribers in June, but its own docs still advertise the free tier it closed.
Grok 4.7, Grok 4.8 and Grok Build: which Grok is out and what each one is for
Grok 4.7 shipped ten days after Musk said it needed a few more days, and the next one has a size but no date.
OpenAI model release dates: o3, GPT-5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna in order
o3 is from April 2025, and the name Sol now means something different from what it meant in July.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open-weights index, but its own table puts Opus 5 ahead
Xiaomi trained it with one reinforcement learning run across coding, agents, vision and cybersecurity, and put the weights on Hugging Face under MIT.
How GPT-5.6 Sol compares on price and context
inputoutput
- GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50
- Claude Fable 5.1$10 / $50
- GPT-5.6 Sol$4 / $20
- GPT-6 Sol$2 / $10
- Muse Spark 1.3$1.25 / $4.25
- Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.75 / $3.75
- GPT-6 Luna$0.10 / $0.50
how much it reads at once
- GPT-5.6 Sol1.05M
- GPT-6 Sol1.05M
- GPT-6 Luna1.05M
- GPT-6 Astra1.05M
- Muse Spark 1.31.05M
- Gemini 3.8 Flash1.05M
- Claude Fable 5.11M
Next to the newest OpenAI models and the current model from other labs. Prices are in US dollars per million tokens.
What is GPT-5.6 Sol?
GPT-5.6 Sol is a model from OpenAI, built in the US. It's out, and you can use it today.
When did GPT-5.6 Sol come out?
OpenAI released it on July 9, 2026. That date comes from OpenAI's announcement.
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- out /1M
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