GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-6 Sol: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Sol both come from OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Sol was released in July 2026, and GPT-6 Sol followed 2 months later in September 2026.
The two models share 4 published benchmarks. GPT-6 Sol leads on 3 of them, GPT-5.6 Sol on 1. The widest gaps are on DeepSWE 1.1, where GPT-5.6 Sol scores 73.0% against 68.8%; Agents' Last Exam, where GPT-6 Sol scores 56.4% against 52.7%. Averaged across everything we track, GPT-5.6 Sol sits at 63.9% and GPT-6 Sol at 54.4%.
GPT-6 Sol is the cheaper API at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol at $5 and $30. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | GPT-5.6 Sol | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Company | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Release Date | July 9, 2026 | September 22, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.1M | 1.1M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 128K |
| Input Price / 1M | $5.00 | $2.00 |
| Output Price / 1M | $30.00 | $10.00 |
| Average Score | 63.9% | 54.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 73.0% | 68.8% |
| Agents' Last Exam | 52.7% | 56.4% |
| FrontierCode 1.1 | 47.5% | 49.3% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 62.6% | 64.4% |
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Verdict
GPT-6 Sol leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5.6 Sol — 0.6, GPT-6 Sol — 0.5.
GPT-6 Sol is 2.9x cheaper: input $2.00/1M vs $5.00/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
GPT-6 Sol is newer: released 9/22/2026 vs 7/9/2026.
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