OpenAI · text model

GPT-5.6 Sol

#11 of 31 text models on overall (provisional). $14.00 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

Price checked 25 Oct 2026 via OpenRouter
key_facts.txt
Released
9 Jul 2026
Context window
1.1M tokens
Longest reply
128K tokens
Open weights
No
Reasoning mode
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Reads
text, image, pdf
Writes
text
Knowledge cutoff
2026-02-16
scores.txt
Overall68
Writing67
Support66
Coding67
Value54
Provisional, 0 to 100 among the text models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. How we score.

Prices and where to run it

ProviderRegionInput per 1MOutput per 1MCached inputData retentionChecked
openrouterglobal$4.00$20.00$0.40Not checked25 Oct 2026, OpenRouter
openaiglobal$4.00$20.00$0.40Not checkedList price, unverified

Price history and a CSV download arrive with the open price dataset.

Benchmarks behind the scores

MeasureFigureRun dateSource
Epoch Capabilities Index162.825 Oct 2026Epoch AI
Arena text, coding149622 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, creative writing1450.222 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, instruction following1482.722 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, multi-turn1461.122 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, overall1457.422 Oct 2026Arena
Arena WebDev1615.123 Oct 2026Arena
call_it.sh
Call it through OpenRouter
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "openai/gpt-5.6-sol", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
alerts.txt
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