GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna score 81.7% vs 69.7% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#9 and #26 of 69 models), so GPT-6.1 Sol leads overall.
- GPT-6.1 Sol wins all 5 tasks, with its widest lead on reasoning (83.7% vs 64.2%).
- GPT-6 Luna is under a tenth of the cost: $0.0004 vs $0.0068 overall average cost per sample.
- GPT-6 Luna is faster: 10.2s vs 12.8s per sample.
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GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Luna on Vision Evals
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GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Luna Comparison Table
Evals updated November 12, 2026Pricing updated November 13, 2026
| Property | GPT-6.1 Sol | GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.1M | 1.1M |
| Parameters | undisclosed | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $2.00 | $0.100 |
| Output $/1M | $10.00 | $0.500 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 81.7% | 69.7% |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0068 | $0.0004 |
| Avg speed / sample | 12.82s | 10.21s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 80.8% ±0.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.7 to 80.9 | 65.5% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.2 to 66.0 |
| Object Detection (high) | 81.6% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.1 to 82.0 | 68.0% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 67.3 to 68.6 |
| Counting (low) | 78.8% ±3.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 82.4 | 71.6% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 71.6 |
| Counting (high) | 80.2% ±3.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 77.0 to 83.8 | 72.1% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 73.0 |
| Identification (low) | 89.6% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6 | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | 88.5% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6 | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 |
| OCR (low) | 75.8% | 59.8% |
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| OCR (high) | 75.8% | 62.5% |
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| Reasoning (low) | 83.7% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.1 to 84.8 | 64.2% ±3.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.3 to 66.2 |
| Reasoning (high) | 88.7% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.4 to 91.4 | 71.1% ±2.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 68.2 to 72.8 |
GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Luna: Overview
GPT-6.1 Sol is a reasoning model in OpenAI's GPT-6 series that accepts text and image input and returns text. It is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol positioned to approach the intelligence of the larger GPT-6 Astra model on agentic coding, computer use, and professional knowledge work. The model exposes an adjustable reasoning effort control, ranging from low settings for simple turns to maximum settings for harder tasks, and can be driven with tool use enabled or disabled. It operates over a context window of roughly one million tokens and emits up to 128,000 output tokens in a single response, which supports long-running agent loops over large codebases and multi-document collections. Audio and video inputs are not supported.
OpenAI reports that GPT-6.1 Sol performs on par with or better than GPT-6 Sol across its image input safety evaluations, and that the share of responses containing a factual error at low reasoning effort falls from 11.4 percent to 7.7 percent.
GPT-6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 model family, sitting below GPT-6 Sol and the larger GPT-6 Astra model that opened the generation. It is a proprietary multimodal transformer that accepts text and image input and returns text, and it exposes an adjustable reasoning effort setting so the same model can run in a low-latency mode or spend additional inference compute on harder problems. OpenAI positions it for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as conversational assistants, classification, and lightweight agentic pipelines, while noting that at higher reasoning effort it handles software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously required a Sol-tier model.
The model supports a context window of roughly 1,050,000 input tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, which allows long documents, extended agent traces, and large code repositories to be processed in a single request. OpenAI describes the GPT-6 generation as improving factual reliability and adopting a more concise communication style relative to the GPT-5.6 series, and attributes the efficiency of the Sol and Luna tiers to gains in caching and inference rather than to reduced capability. Architecture details, parameter counts, and training data are not published.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Roboflow's Vision Evals, GPT-6.1 Sol performed better. It scores higher on all five vision tasks and averages 81.7% (#9 of 69) against 69.7% (#26 of 69) for GPT-6 Luna. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.
Yes. On the Vision Evals Reasoning benchmark at low effort, GPT-6.1 Sol leads with 83.7% against 64.2%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.
GPT-6 Luna is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0004 per sample against $0.0068. GPT-6.1 Sol is priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output; GPT-6 Luna is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.
GPT-6 Luna is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 10.2s per inference against 12.8s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and OCR in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.