OpenAI · text model

GPT-6 Astra

#7 of 31 text models on overall (provisional). $35.00 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

Price checked 25 Oct 2026 via vendor
key_facts.txt
Released
4 Sept 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
2026-04-30
scores.txt
Overall74
Writing55
Support56
Coding82
Value56
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
openaiglobal$10.00$50.00$1.00Not checked25 Oct 2026, vendor
openrouterglobal$10.00$50.00$1.00Not checked25 Oct 2026, OpenRouter

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

Benchmarks behind the scores

MeasureFigureRun dateSource
Epoch Capabilities Index168.825 Oct 2026Epoch AI
Arena text, coding1488.822 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, creative writing1420.522 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, instruction following1455.322 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, multi-turn144922 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, overall144222 Oct 2026Arena
Arena WebDev1774.323 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-6-astra", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
alerts.txt
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