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GPT-6 Astra

OpenAIReleased 4 Sep 2026ClosedFlagship
197186–209Index score#2 of 229 models
5/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 18 anchor tests
FrontierVersus the frontier at releaseset or matched the record
$10/ $50Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1.05MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Among the first models to reach this score.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
96%
Humanity's Last Exam
55%
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
94%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
65%
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
95%
Long tasksno 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 sayrank on each leaderboard

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 attop three among current models

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

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released4 Sep 2026
Announcementopenai.com ↗
Release entryGPT-6 Astra (preview 09-03)
Scored asGPT-6 Astra
Artificial Analysis index53 · max
Output speed51 tokens/s
Hugging Faceclosed weights

OpenAI releasesaround this one