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GPT-6.1 Sol

OpenAI · 29 September 2026

GPT-6.1 Sol delivers near-Astra intelligence on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's price.

Upgrade to GPT-6 Sol matching Astra on DeepSWE v1.1 at roughly one-fifth the cost; $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, $0.10 cached input. Treated as Critical for cyber and High for bio under the Preparedness Framework, with Astra's safeguards. Supports Multi-agent beta. OpenAI's Navier-Stokes post says a more capable internal model began training 2026-08-28.

Date
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Lab
OpenAI
Kind
model
Access
closed API
Price
$2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
API price (input / output per 1M tokens)$2 / $10
cached input $0.10; Astra is $10 / $50
company

Sol 6.1 is an upgrade of GPT-6 Sol, not a new pretrain; DevDay 2026 added Ultrafast for Astra and then 6.1 Sol.

Sources

  1. openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
  2. deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-1-sol/
  3. simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/hn-49898129/
  4. developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog

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