openai / text-generation API-only released 2026-07-09

GPT-5.6 Sol

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...

Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00
Context
1.0M
AA Intelligence
47
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API file + image + text → text Knowledge cutoff Feb 2026 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$4.00
input / 1M
$20.00
output / 1M
$0.40
cached input / 1M
$24.00
1M in + 1M out
:batch variant $2.00 in · $10.00 out
Price tiers
  • Above 272K prompt tokens: input $8.00/M, output $30.00/M (2× base)
Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Providers
3
Cheapest provider
OpenAI · $2.00 / $10.00
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
47 / 77.4 / 50.2
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $4.00 input · $20.00 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
47
AA Coding Index
77.4
AA Agentic Index
50.2

Providers

3 providers · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
OpenAI unknown 1.0M $2.00 $10.00 100% —
Azure unknown 1.0M $4.00 $20.00 100% —
OpenAI unknown 1.0M $4.00 $20.00 100% —
Amazon Bedrock unknown 1.0M $4.40 $22.00 — —
Azure unknown 1.0M $4.40 $22.00 — —
Azure unknown 1.0M $4.40 $22.00 — —
OpenAI unknown 1.0M $8.00 $40.00 — —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
openai
Released on OpenRouter
2026-07-09
Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Input
file, image, text
Output
text
Knowledge cutoff
February 2026
Tokenizer
GPT
Moderated by provider
Yes
OpenRouter id
openai/gpt-5.6-sol
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.