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GPT-5.6 Sol

The frontier-capability tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, aimed at coding agents and demanding professional work, with a 1.05M-token context window.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#10
Tier
S
Score
87.3
Main category
Coding

Strengths

  • Strong result on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index at max reasoning
  • Roughly one-third less cost and half the tokens versus prior frontier
  • Strong long-horizon agentic and terminal workflows

Considerations

  • Frontier pricing on the highest reasoning tier
  • Newly launched; long-term reliability still being validated

Price

API $4 input / $20 output per 1M tokens (promotional rate through at least Nov 21, 2026)

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Score breakdown

Performance
89.0
55% of score
Reputation
90.0
35% of score
Recency
68.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

Verification status

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