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OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra Overview

GPT-6 Astra is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI that accepts text and image input and produces text output. It is positioned as the company's flagship system for long-horizon end-to-end work spanning complex reasoning, software engineering, computer use, browsing, research and document creation. The model exposes a graduated reasoning effort control with low, medium, high, xhigh and max settings, and it accepts a change to that setting partway through a conversation rather than only at request time. It launches as a single tier with no smaller mini or nano variants, carries a context window of roughly 1.05 million tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, and reports a knowledge cutoff of April 30, 2026.

OpenAI reports evaluation results across agentic, scientific and security benchmarks, including 96.0% on GPQA Diamond, 64.6% on Terminal-Bench Science, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and a perfect score on ExploitBench, along with near saturation on FrontierMath Tier 4 and ARC-AGI-3. The model supports computer use, structured outputs, streaming, programmatic tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching and persisted reasoning, and it keeps earlier context windows searchable so it can recover requirements or tool outputs from previous turns. OpenAI describes Astra as the first of its models to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.

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GPT-6 Astra Details & Performance

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Vision Tasks

CaptioningChart Question AnsweringClassificationDocument Question AnsweringImage TaggingMulti-Label ClassificationOCRObject DetectionVision LanguageVisual Question Answering

Features

Foundation VisionLLMs with Vision CapabilitiesMultimodal Vision

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

GPT-6 Astra Vision Evals

Vision Evals is Roboflow's ground-truth benchmark: every model runs the same real-world samples across five vision tasks, and answers are scored against ground truth.

Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 20, 2026

Overall score#2 of 63
83.4%
Avg cost / sample#60 of 63
$0.034
Avg speed / sample#27 of 63
9.94s
Avg tokens / sample
2.1K

Strengths and weaknesses

GPT-6 Astra averages 83.4% across the five Vision Evals tasks, ranking #2 of 63 models overall.

It places in the top three for Object Detection, Reasoning, and OCR.

Its weakest relative showing is Identification, ranking #19 of 63 at 89.6%.

At $0.034 per sample it is the 60th cheapest of the 63 benchmarked models, and its average inference time of 9.9s per sample makes it the 27th fastest.

Performance profile

Field medianGPT-6 Astra

Field medians: Object Detection 54.4%, Counting 63.5%, Identification 84.4%, OCR 63.6%, Reasoning 57.6%.

Results by task

TaskScoreField (0 to 100)RankCost / sampleSpeed
Object Detection (low)
82.1%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.0 to 82.7
#2 of 63$0.05010.96s
Object Detection (high)
83.6%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 84.5
#2 of 31$0.10131.66s
Counting (low)
80.2%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1
#5 of 63$0.0184.39s
Counting (high)
81.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.7 to 82.4
#5 of 31$0.0287.80s
Identification (low)
89.6%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
#19 of 63$0.0132.47s
Identification (high)
92.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
#8 of 31$0.0143.09s
OCR (low)
77.8%
#3 of 47$0.03412.11s
Single value
60.9%
Transcription
95.9%
Structured JSON
91.8%
Text localization
75.5%
OCR (high)
77.6%
#5 of 47$0.08439.33s
Single value
59.6%
Transcription
97.5%
Structured JSON
91.7%
Text localization
76.8%
Reasoning (low)
87.2%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.1 to 88.1
#2 of 63$0.0163.91s
Reasoning (high)
91.2%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.7 to 91.4
#2 of 50$0.0215.51s
  • Thinking longer helps: 1.5 points higher on object detection at high effort for 2x the cost and 2.9x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 0.9 points higher on counting at high effort for 1.5x the cost and 1.8x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 3.1 points higher on identification at high effort for 1.1x the cost and 1.2x the latency.
  • Thinking longer does not help: 0.2 points lower on ocr at high effort for 2.5x the cost and 3.2x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 4 points higher on reasoning at high effort for 1.3x the cost and 1.4x the latency.

Price vs. performance

Score vs. cost

Overall benchmark score against estimated cost per sample, on a log scale. Upper-left is the sweet spot: high quality at low cost.

62 models on the current benchmark · scores and efficiency pooled across all five tasks at low effort · GPT-6 Astra highlighted

GPT-6 Astra scores are the mean of 3 runs per task at both low and high effort; OCR is a single preliminary run · Methodology

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GPT-6 Astra Pricing

GPT-6 Astra costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens.

Input$10.00 / 1M tokens
Output$50.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input$1.00 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Oct 20, 2026

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GPT-6 Astra License

Proprietary

GPT-6 Astra is proprietary: the weights are not distributed, and the GPT-6 Astra license is the vendor's commercial terms of service that you accept when you call the API.

Commercial use
Permitted under the vendor terms, typically metered per token or per request, with the vendor usage policy applying to your inputs and outputs.
Modification
Not available. GPT-6 Astra weights are closed, so you can configure prompts and use vendor-hosted fine-tuning where it is offered, but you cannot modify the model itself.
Redistribution
Not permitted. You cannot self-host or resell the model; you build on the hosted API instead.

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Frequently Asked Questions About GPT-6 Astra Vision

Yes. GPT-6 Astra accepts image input and handles OCR, object counting, identification, visual reasoning, and object detection. On Roboflow's Vision Evals its strongest task is Object Detection at 82.1% (#2 of 63 at low effort). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Yes, and it is one of the model's strongest vision skills: it scores 77.8% (#3 of 47 at low effort) on Vision Evals OCR, which covers single readings, full transcriptions, structured JSON, and locating text with boxes. Within that, full transcriptions score 95.9%, and returning the fields of a label or form as JSON scores 91.8%.

Yes. On Vision Evals, GPT-6 Astra scores 82.1% mAP@50 on object detection (#2 of 63 at low effort) and 80.2% judge-graded accuracy on object counting.

On our benchmark's task mix, GPT-6 Astra averages $0.03 per sample at $10.00 per 1M input and $50.00 per 1M output tokens (#60 of 63 on cost), with an average speed of 9.9s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, GPT-6 Astra sits #2 of 63 at 83.4%, just behind Gemini 4 Argon (87.5%) and just ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 (82%). See the full side-by-side: GPT-6 Astra vs Gemini 4 Argon.