GPT-6 Sol: release date and what it's for
Released , according to OpenAI's announcement. The middle of the GPT-6 family, and a different model from GPT-5.6 Sol despite the shared name. It costs half what GPT-5.6 Sol does.
- Status
- Live
- Released
- Lab
- OpenAI
- Input
- $2per million tokens
- Output
- $10per million tokens
- Context window
- 1.05Mtokens
- Max output
- 128Ktokens
API model ID: gpt-6-sol
What is GPT-6 Sol capable of?
21 posts from people showing what they made with GPT-6 Sol, newest and most-reacted first. People are posting 3d, science and game 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-6 Sol
Microsoft builds Decision-1 on Alibaba's Qwen and plans to move it to OpenAI and MAI models
The model scores a fixed list of choices instead of writing answers, and Microsoft puts it 35 times quicker than GPT-6 Sol.
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.
GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra and halves the price of cached input
It lists at the same price as Claude Sonnet 5.5, but its cached input now costs half as much.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's terminal coding test, at half the token price
The cheaper model beat Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's own terminal coding test, and it's the first Sonnet that hands risky security work to an older model.
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.
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.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol costs a fifth of Astra per token, and Luna a hundredth
Sam Altman says the pair beats the 5.6 models at half the price per token, and OpenAI's own docs still send new users to Astra first.
How GPT-6 Sol compares on price and context
inputoutput
- GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50
- Claude Fable 5.1$10 / $50
- GPT-5.6 Terra$2 / $12
- 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-6 Sol1.05M
- GPT-6 Luna1.05M
- GPT-6 Astra1.05M
- GPT-5.6 Terra1.05M
- 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-6 Sol?
GPT-6 Sol is a model from OpenAI, built in the US. It's out, and you can use it today.
When did GPT-6 Sol come out?
OpenAI released it on September 22, 2026. That date comes from OpenAI's announcement.
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