vs
1:12
overall capability wins (1 ties across 14 scored). GPT-5.6 Sol leads overall.
- Reasoning1:6
- Coding0:3
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed1:1
- Specs0:1
Verdict
GPT-5.6 Sol leads coding (widest gap: +52.8 on TermBench); GPT-5.6 Sol ranks higher on LMArena (+49 Elo); GPT-5.6 Sol offers ~2.6x larger context (1.1M vs 400K).
- GPT-5.6 Sol leads coding (widest gap: +52.8 on TermBench)
- GPT-5.6 Sol ranks higher on LMArena (+49 Elo)
- GPT-5.6 Sol offers ~2.6x larger context (1.1M vs 400K)
- GPT-5 is ~2.3x 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
- $3.75
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- $9
GPT-5 is about 2.4x 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
Aug 7, 2025
Jul 9, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
2024-09
2026-02-16
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
400K
1.1M
Max output
128K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$1.25
$4
Output $/1M
$10
$20
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.44
$8
Speed
tok/s
90
96
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.45
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
85.4
94.1
Humanity's Last Exam
28.5
49.5
AIME 2025
94.6
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
40.3
59.4
AA-LCR v1.1
78.2
84.0
CritPt
5.7
32.3
MMMU-Pro
74.2
83.4
IFBench
73.1
72.7
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
74.9
—
SWE-bench Pro
41.8
64.6
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
35.2
88.0
Aider Polyglot
88.0
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
34.6
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
42.9
57.1
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
1,435
1,484
| Metric | GPT-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-5.x | GPT-5.x | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Aug 7, 2025 | Jul 9, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-09 | 2026-02-16 | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 400K | 1.1M | B +650K |
| Max output | 128K | 128K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $1.25 | $4 | A +$2.75 |
| Output $/1M | $10 | $20 | A +$10 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.44 | $8 | A +$4.56 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 90 | 96 | B +6.00 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.45 | A +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 85.4 | 94.1 | B +8.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 28.5 | 49.5 | B +21.0 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 94.6 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 40.3 | 59.4 | B +19.1 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 78.2 | 84.0 | B +5.8 pts |
| CritPt | 5.7 | 32.3 | B +26.6 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 74.2 | 83.4 | B +9.2 pts |
| IFBench | 73.1 | 72.7 | A +0.4 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.9 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 41.8 | 64.6 | B +22.8 pts |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 35.2 | 88.0 | B +52.8 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | 88.0 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | 34.6 | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 42.9 | 57.1 | B +14.2 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 | 1,435 | 1,484 | B +49 Elo |
GPT-5
- Context
- 400K / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.25 / $10
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Original GPT-5 GA release - still a strong price/performance option versus newer premium SKUs.
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.
Benchmark charts
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