Analysis Summary
GPT-5.6 Sol is an OpenAI configuration with a broad production interface. It handles text, images, and files, includes vision, tool use, function calling, and a 1.05 million token context window. These capabilities support long-document work, multimodal content operations, and assistants that need to call external services.
For an agency, likely applications include content planning, client research, editorial transformation, and structured workflow automation. It offers more context capacity than many standard deployments, but its pricing is not designed for the cheapest possible bulk traffic. The supplied record provides no benchmark data for this exact variant, so reasoning, coding, and instruction reliability remain unverified. It should be tested against a measured model before becoming a default client-facing route.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
GPT-5.6 Sol provides multimodal input, vision, tool use, function calling, and a 1.05M context window for broad client workflows. Its pricing is meaningful and this specific variant has no benchmark record.
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DFO Verdict
GPT-5.6 Sol provides multimodal input, vision, tool use, function calling, and a 1.05M context window for broad client workflows. Its pricing is meaningful and this specific variant has no benchmark record.
How OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) compares
Its 1.1M-token context window is larger than 98% of the models we list. At $1.25 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 23% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.25 | $0.001250 |
| Output | $7.50 | $0.007500 |
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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..
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Frequently asked questions about OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)
How much does OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) cost?
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)?
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) has a context window of 1,050,000 tokens (1.1M).
What can OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) do?
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)?
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) is developed by OpenAI and was released on July 9, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: August 17, 2026 8:38 pm