GPT-5.6 Sol
Flagshipby OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, previewed on June 26, 2026. Pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output, with a 1 million token context window. Access at launch is intentionally narrow: at the request of the US Government, only roughly 20 pre-approved organizations were granted entry to the limited preview, with general availability planned in the weeks that follow. OpenAI positioned Sol for frontier reasoning and agentic work and disclosed partial benchmarks (Sol Ultra at 91.9 percent on Terminal-Bench 2.1, base Sol at 88.8 percent), while holding back SWE-bench, MMLU-Pro, GDPval, and FrontierMath until GA. A Cerebras deployment running Sol at up to 750 tokens per second is planned for July. Treat Sol as a forward-looking option for now: priced, named, and benchmarked in part, but not yet broadly callable.
Input Price
$5.00
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$30.00
per 1M tokens
Context Window
1M
tokens
Released
2026-06
API access
Capabilities
Key Strengths
- ✓1M token context window
- ✓Same headline price as GPT-5.5 ($5/$30) for a new generation
- ✓Frontier-class agentic and reasoning posture
- ✓Cerebras hardware path at roughly 750 tokens/sec planned for July
- ✓Sister to lower-cost Terra and Luna variants in the same family
Best For
- ▸Long-horizon agentic workflows
- ▸Frontier reasoning and research tasks
- ▸Hardest-tier coding agents
- ▸Limited-preview evaluation against GPT-5.5 and Claude Fable 5
Pricing Details
Input tokens
$5.00
per 1M tokens
Output tokens
$30.00
per 1M tokens
Estimated cost per 1K requests
$20.00
~1K input + ~500 output tokens avg
Prices are subject to change. Check the official documentation for current pricing. See the cost calculator for detailed estimates.
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