vs
10:1
overall capability wins (1 ties across 12 scored). GPT-5.6 Sol leads overall.
- Reasoning5:1
- Coding2:0
- Arena1:0
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices2:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs1:0
Verdict
GPT-5.6 Sol leads coding (widest gap: +84.3 on TermBench); GPT-5.6 Sol ranks higher on LMArena (+94 Elo); GPT-5.6 Sol offers ~2.6x larger context (1.1M vs 400K).
- GPT-5.6 Sol leads coding (widest gap: +84.3 on TermBench)
- GPT-5.6 Sol ranks higher on LMArena (+94 Elo)
- GPT-5.6 Sol offers ~2.6x larger context (1.1M vs 400K)
- GPT-5 Mini is ~11.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-5.6 Sol
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- $9
- GPT-5 Mini
- $0.75
GPT-5 Mini is about 12.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
OpenAI
OpenAI
Family
GPT-5.x
GPT-5.x
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Jul 9, 2026
Aug 7, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2026-02-16
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1.1M
400K
Max output
128K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$4
$0.25
Output $/1M
$20
$2
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$8
$0.69
Speed
tok/s
96
160
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
94.1
82.8
Humanity's Last Exam
49.5
21.5
AIME 2025
—
91.1
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
59.4
25.0
AA-LCR v1.1
84.0
72.3
CritPt
32.3
—
MMMU-Pro
83.4
70.1
IFBench
72.7
75.4
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
56.2
SWE-bench Pro
64.6
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
39.7
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
88.0
3.7
Aider Polyglot
—
71.6
Terminal-Bench 3
34.6
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
57.1
39.0
CursorBench
67.2
—
SWE-Rebench
62.3
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
72.7
—
WebDev Arena
1,617
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
37.3
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,484
1,390
| Metric | GPT-5.6 Sol | GPT-5 Mini | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-5.x | GPT-5.x | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-02-16 | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1.1M | 400K | A +650K |
| Max output | 128K | 128K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $4 | $0.25 | B +$3.75 |
| Output $/1M | $20 | $2 | B +$18 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $8 | $0.69 | B +$7.31 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 96 | 160 | B +64 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.2 | B +0.25 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 94.1 | 82.8 | A +11.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 49.5 | 21.5 | A +28.0 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | 91.1 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 59.4 | 25.0 | A +34.4 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 84.0 | 72.3 | A +11.7 pts |
| CritPt | 32.3 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 83.4 | 70.1 | A +13.3 pts |
| IFBench | 72.7 | 75.4 | B +2.7 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 56.2 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 64.6 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 39.7 | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 88.0 | 3.7 | A +84.3 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 71.6 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | 34.6 | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 57.1 | 39.0 | A +18.1 pts |
| CursorBench | 67.2 | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.3 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 72.7 | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,617 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 37.3 | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,484 | 1,390 | A +94 Elo |
GPT-5.6 Sol
- Context
- 1.1M / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $4 / $20
- Speed
- 96 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
OpenAI's July 2026 flagship reasoning tier, tuned for hard STEM and agentic work; ChatGPT's top API SKU in the 5.6 family. Promotional Standard rates are $4/$20 (through at least Nov 21, 2026). Fast mode (2× price) delivers up to 2.5× Standard speed, and the Cerebras-powered Ultrafast preview reaches up to 750 tok/s.
GPT-5 Mini
- Context
- 400K / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.25 / $2
- Speed
- 160 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cost-efficient GPT-5 variant for high-throughput applications where flagship quality is not required.
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