GPT-5.6 Sol
API ID gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.6-sol is an OpenAI model, released July 2026. It has a 1,050,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. It takes image input and supports function calling, structured outputs and reasoning. Standard price: from $4.00 input and from $20.00 output per 1M tokens.
- Status
- Active
- Released
- July 2026
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Replacement
- —
No deprecation or shutdown date has been announced as of October 15, 2026.
Free tier: Free for shared data, 1M tokens a day for Launch and Grow (250K for Build), in place when tracking began (October 12, 2026) (source) · All free models
Benchmarks
Scores as each source published themComparing with o3 Pro (2025-06-10), the previous model in this line. A score is compared only with the same benchmark from the same source, at the same setting where both have it. Full comparison: prices, limits, features
Arena
| Arena | GPT-5.6 Sol | o3 Pro (2025-06-10) | Change | Rank | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TextBy category
| 1485 ±4 | not rated | 21 of 415 39,832 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source | |
| Text: Coding | 1534 ±7 | not rated | 16 of 410 10,696 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source | |
| WebDev | 1617 ±6 | not rated | 26 of 142 17,276 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source | |
| Vision | 1287 ±7 | not rated | 16 of 165 10,907 votes | Oct 9, 2026 | source | |
| Search | 1258 ±6 | not rated | 1 of 42 60,437 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source | |
| Document | 1489 ±9 | not rated | 8 of 44 4,818 votes | Sep 13, 2026 | source | |
| Agent | 0.074 ±0.014 | not rated | 10 of 54 36,373 sessions | Oct 14, 2026 | source |
Rated as gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (xhigh effort). Text, WebDev, Vision, Search and Document ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text, Vision, Search and Document are style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Agent is Arena's separate score for real agent sessions, on its own scale. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.
Epoch AI
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | o3 Pro (2025-06-10) | Change | Setting | Run | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 82.9% | not run | max effort | Jul 9, 2026 | source | |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | 89.1% | not run | max effort | Jul 9, 2026 | source | |
GPQA DiamondOther settings
| 93.5% | not run | max effort | Jul 9, 2026 | source | |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Other settings
| 100.0% | not run | max effort | Jul 9, 2026 | source | |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% | not run | max effort | Aug 10, 2026 | source |
Run independently by Epoch AI. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Platform | Platform ID | State | Shutdown | Time left | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | openai.gpt-5.6-sol | Active | not before Jul 13, 2027 | — | source | |
| Microsoft Foundryversion 2026-07-09 | gpt-5.6-sol | Active | Jan 11, 2028 | 453 days | — | source |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use OpenAI's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Aliases pointing here: gpt-daybreak-blue-latest (in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026))
Features
Compare models| Feature | Value | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structured outputsThe model can be held to a JSON schema you supply, so every reply parses without retries or cleanup. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Function callingAlso called tool use. You describe functions; the model replies with a function name and arguments for your code to run, then uses the result. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Prompt cachingA prompt prefix you send again and again (system prompt, documents, tools) is cached, so later requests cost less and start faster. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Batch APISend many requests as one job that runs in the background, usually finished within 24 hours, at a lower price than live requests. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Image inputImages such as screenshots, photos and charts can go in the prompt for the model to read. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Reasoning / thinkingThe model can work through a problem step by step before it answers: usually better answers to hard questions, at the cost of more tokens and time. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Fine-tuningYou can train your own version of the model on your examples through the company's API, then call it like any other model. | Not supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Built-in web searchThe company's API can search the web for the model during a request and cite its sources; you don't need a search service of your own. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Context windowThe most the model can work with in one request, in tokens: your prompt, conversation history and files. A token is about three-quarters of an English word. | 1,050,000 tokens | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
| Max output tokensThe longest reply the model can write in one response, in tokens. A token is about three-quarters of an English word. | 128,000 tokens | in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) | source |
Not published by OpenAI: PDF input, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Price history
USD per 1M tokens, standard tierWe started recording this model's prices on Oct 1, 2026. The history grows with each daily check.
Show as a table
| From | Type | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | Input | $4.00 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Output | $20.00 |
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier| Type | Band | Price $/1M | In effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | |||
| input | long context | $8.00 | |
| input | short context | $4.00 | |
| cached input | long context | $0.80 | |
| cached input | short context | $0.40 | |
| cache write | long context | $10.00 | |
| cache write | short context | $5.00 | |
| output | long context | $30.00 | |
| output | short context | $20.00 | |
| Batch | |||
| input | long context | $4.00 | |
| input | short context | $2.00 | |
| cached input | long context | $0.40 | |
| cached input | short context | $0.20 | |
| cache write | long context | $5.00 | |
| cache write | short context | $2.50 | |
| output | long context | $15.00 | |
| output | short context | $10.00 | |
| Flex | |||
| input | long context | $4.00 | |
| input | short context | $2.00 | |
| cached input | long context | $0.40 | |
| cached input | short context | $0.20 | |
| cache write | long context | $5.00 | |
| cache write | short context | $2.50 | |
| output | long context | $15.00 | |
| output | short context | $10.00 | |
| Fast | |||
| input | long context | $16.00 | |
| input | short context | $8.00 | |
| cached input | long context | $1.60 | |
| cached input | short context | $0.80 | |
| cache write | long context | $20.00 | |
| cache write | short context | $10.00 | |
| output | long context | $60.00 | |
| output | short context | $40.00 | |
Changelog
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