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GPT-6 Sol vs SAM 3 Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 6, 2026
| Property | GPT-6 Sol | SAM 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | Meta |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Sep 2026 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.1M | — |
| Parameters | undisclosed | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | See license terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $2.00 | No published price |
| Output $/1M | $10.00 | No published price |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Not listed |
| Chart Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Classification | Demo | Not listed |
| Document Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Image Tagging | Supported | Not listed |
| Instance Segmentation | Not listed | Supported |
| Multi-Label Classification | Supported | Not listed |
| OCR | Demo | Not listed |
| Open Vocabulary Object Detection | Not listed | Supported |
| Video Object Tracking | Not listed | Supported |
| Vision Language | Supported | Not listed |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Not listed |
| Zero Shot Segmentation | Not listed | Supported |
Both support 2 more tasks | ||
| Model Features | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | Supported | Not listed |
| Zero-shot Detection | Not listed | Supported |
Both support 2 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 76.9% | Not evaluated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0074 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 10.20s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 74.7% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.1 to 75.5 | – |
| Object Detection (high) | 76.4% ±1.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.0 to 77.4 | – |
| Counting (low) | 76.6% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.3 to 78.4 | – |
| Counting (high) | 77.5% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 78.4 | – |
| Identification (low) | 93.8% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8 | – |
| Identification (high) | 92.7% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8 | – |
| OCR (low) | 66.7% | – |
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| OCR (high) | 68.8% | – |
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| Reasoning (low) | 72.6% ±3.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.5 to 76.8 | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 77.7% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 78.8 | – |
GPT-6 Sol vs SAM 3: Overview
GPT-6 Sol is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI, released on September 22, 2026 alongside GPT-6 Luna as an efficiency-oriented tier of the GPT-6 family that began with GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI states that Sol and Luna are trained with methods similar to those used for Astra, carrying the same work on professional tasks, factuality, coding, computer use, and alignment into models that run faster. Sol accepts text and image input and returns text output, and OpenAI documents a context window of roughly one million tokens together with a knowledge cutoff of April 20, 2026.
The model targets complex coding and agentic workflows and exposes a configurable reasoning effort setting with levels of none, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max, which trades latency and token consumption against answer quality. Its vision behavior covers image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, document and chart interpretation, and text recognition.
Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.
Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.
Frequently Asked Questions
GPT-6 Sol is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. In practice: GPT-6 Sol: commercial use per vendor terms. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection and segmentation in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.
