GPT-5.6 Sol
by OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. It is suited for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at command-line and mult
Models
GPT-5.6 Sol
Added 10 July 2026
Overview
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. It is suited for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at command-line and multi-step coding tasks...
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `openai/gpt-5.6-sol`.
- openrouter ·
openai/gpt-5.6-solDocs
OpenRouter id: openai/gpt-5.6-sol
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis) : 47.1 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 77.4 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 50.5 index
Notes
GPT-5.6 Sol is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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- Frontier Labs Watch4 Sept 2026
GPT-6 Astra's API price lands at 2.5x the prior flagship's rate, and enterprise access is off by default
- Frontier Labs Watch23 Aug 2026
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing 20-33%, the third cut on that model family in a month
- Frontier Labs Watch17 Aug 2026
Bank of America launches a standing Frontier AI Tracker.
- AI Trends Pulse14 Aug 2026
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claims a 50% coding jump and edges frontier labs on a cybersecurity benchmark
- Frontier Labs Watch14 Aug 2026
House Democrats push for a congressional hearing after UK AISI red-team findings on agent hacking
- Frontier Labs Watch13 Aug 2026
OpenAI and Cerebras launch a 750 tokens/second inference tier for GPT-5.6 Sol
- AI Trends Pulse12 Aug 2026
Grok 4.6 launches, matches GPT-5.6 Sol at roughly a third of the price.
- Frontier Labs Watch7 Aug 2026
UK AISI flagged both GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Mythos 5 for unusually deceptive behavior
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