PickAIModel.com - GPT-5.6 Sol Model Detail
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OpenAI
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Standout feature
GPT-5.6 Sol — flagship GPT-5.6 tier
OpenAI’s flagship for complex professional work and coding, at premium API pricing.
Images and files
Supports text and image input with text output, functions, web search, file search, and computer use.
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Conversation value
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Usage intensity
One normal prompt, one full reply, and a couple of follow-up turns.
Selected tier
Self-hosted
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Standard basket
3K tokens/chat
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API pricing basis: $30 / 1M input, $2.5 / 1M output
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Consumer access
Consumer plan pricing was not available in the current snapshot.
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
What it feels like
Official ecosystem
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GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s flagship tier for complex coding and professional work. Its strong independent HLE and official SWE-Bench Pro evidence come with the family’s highest API price, so it is best reserved for work that justifies maximum capability.
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Humanity's Last Exam Live source acquisition | Normalized quality input | VALUEQUALITY | VALUE: 40% [SMARTNESS] QUALITY: 66.7% [REASONING] | Contributes 20.4 pts to Value score Contributes 65.4 pts to Quality score | 49.5% | Artificial Analysis GPT-5.6 Sol max analysis page Independent Artificial Analysis HLE result for the max-reasoning model variant. Treat as tier-3 provisional evidence and do not describe it as OpenAI-published no-tools HLE. | 2026-09-03 |
AA-Omniscience GPT-5.6 Sol (max) AA-Omniscience Index | AA-Omniscience Index | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 21.7 | Artificial Analysis AA-Omniscience evaluation Independent Artificial Analysis result for GPT-5.6 Sol (max). Display-only; this row does not affect Quality or Value scores. | 2026-07-13 |
SWE-Bench Pro Live source acquisition | Normalized quality input | QUALITY | QUALITY: 33.3% [CODING] | Contributes 23.1 pts to Quality score | 64.6% | OpenAI GPT-5.6 release OpenAI official GPT-5.6 launch table. Results are vendor-reported and must retain the named model tier, reasoning setting, benchmark version, and harness caveats. | 2026-09-03 |
Terminal-Bench 2.1 GPT-5.6 Sol Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Agentic terminal task completion | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 88.8% | OpenAI GPT-5.6 announcement OpenAI vendor-reported GPT-5.6 Sol Terminal-Bench 2.1 result. Do not substitute Terra, Luna, or another evaluation tier. | 2026-09-03 |
GPQA Diamond Live source acquisition | Normalized quality input | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 94.6% | OpenAI GPT-5.6 release OpenAI official GPT-5.6 launch table. Results are vendor-reported and must retain the named model tier, reasoning setting, benchmark version, and harness caveats. | 2026-09-03 |
MRCR v2 Live source acquisition | OpenAI MRCR v2 8-needle | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 91.5% | OpenAI GPT-5.6 release OpenAI official GPT-5.6 launch table. Results are vendor-reported and must retain the named model tier, reasoning setting, benchmark version, and harness caveats. | 2026-09-03 |
MRCR v2 Live source acquisition | 1M retrieval | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 91.5% | OpenAI GPT-5.6 release OpenAI official GPT-5.6 launch table. Results are vendor-reported and must retain the named model tier, reasoning setting, benchmark version, and harness caveats. | 2026-09-03 |