> GPT-5.6 Sol is a closed AI model from OpenAI, released 9 Jul 2026. Index score 184 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 8 of 229 ranked models. API price $2.0 in / $10 out per million tokens, 1.05M context.

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# GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI

Released 9 Jul 2026

Closed

Flagship

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/gpt-5-6-sol-vs-kimi-k3/) [Announcement](https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/)

184173–195

Index score

#8 of 229 models

4/ 8

Core tests taken

4 of 6 areas · plus 21 anchor tests

−1

Versus the frontier at release

best then: Claude Fable 5

Replaced by [GPT-6 Sol](https://themodelindex.org/models/gpt-6-sol/)

$2.0/ $10

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

1.05M

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Claude Fable 5 reached this score 1 month earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 17 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

94%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

89%

Coding

evidence

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

APEX-Agents

51%

Novel problems

evidence

ARC-AGI-2

93%

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#8

of 219 · 184

LMArena · Search

answering with web search

#1

of 34 · 1257

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#8

of 239 · 161.8

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#14

of 383 · 1534

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#18

of 386 · 1469

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#19

of 388 · 1484

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#20

of 373 · 1493

LMArena · Vision

understanding images

#13

of 149 · 1287

LiveBench · Overall

overall, with fresh questions to limit contamination

#8

of 58 · 81

LMArena · WebDev

building web apps and front ends

#20

of 123 · 1619

LMArena · Documents

working with long documents

#9

of 41 · 1483

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

1st

answering with web search

LMArena · Search

2nd

working with long documents

LMArena · Documents

2nd

ARC-AGI-2

Epoch AI · independent

3rd

understanding images

LMArena · Vision

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

ChatGPT

app · subscription

↗

OpenAI API

API

↗

#### API providers · 3 · per million tokens, in / out

O

OpenAI

$4.0 / $20

cheapest

A

Azure

$4.4 / $22

↗

A

Amazon Bedrock

$4.4 / $22

↗

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

9 Jul 2026

Announcement

[openai.com ↗](https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/)

Release entry

GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna; preview 06-26)

Scored as

GPT-5.6 Sol

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

–

Hugging Face

closed weights

## OpenAI releases · around this one

GPT-5.5 Thinking

Closed

23 APR 2026

GPT-5.6 Luna

Closed

9 JUL 2026

index 169

GPT-5.6 Sol

Closed

9 JUL 2026

index 184

GPT-5.6 Terra

Closed

9 JUL 2026

index 178

GPT-6 Astra

Closed

4 SEP 2026

index 197

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/gpt-5-6-sol/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01