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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
By making every layer more efficient, OpenAI is delivering stronger performance per dollar across more enterprise workloads.
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol
Frontier model for complex professional work.
Specs
Model
- Family
- GPT-5
- Variant
- 5.6 Sol
- Weights
- Proprietary
Limits
- Context
- 1,050,000 tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
Modalities
- Input
- Text Image PDF
- Output
- Text
Pricing
- Input
- $5 / 1M
- Output
- $30 / 1M
- Cache read
- $0.5 / 1M
- Cache write
- $6.25 / 1M
Capabilities
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Reasoning control
- Effort levels
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Attachments
- Yes
Dates
- Released
- 9 Jul 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- 16 Feb 2026
Articles
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Getting the most out of GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra, and Luna
Your Codex subscription now comes with 3 main models, Sol, Terra, and Luna, each independently trained and served, with reasoning dials.
Cerebras@cerebras
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Practical multi-agent orchestration in Codex
GPT-5.6 Sol gets especially interesting when it has a team to work with.
eric provencher@pvncher
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GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
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