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GPT-6 Sol 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. OpenAI reports results including 33.2% on AutomationBench at xhigh effort and 56.4% on Agents' Last Exam at max effort, while its reported DeepSWE and OSWorld 2.0 figures of 68.8% and 64.4% fall below those of the earlier GPT-5.6 Sol. Its vision behavior covers image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, document and chart interpretation, and text recognition.

GPT-6 Sol Interactive Demo

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GPT-6 Sol Details & Performance

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Resources

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Vision Tasks

CaptioningChart Question AnsweringClassificationDocument Question AnsweringImage TaggingMulti-Label ClassificationOCRVision LanguageVisual Question AnsweringObject Detection

Features

Foundation VisionLLMs with Vision CapabilitiesMultimodal Vision

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

GPT-6 Sol 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 17, 2026

Overall score#12 of 63
76.9%
Avg cost / sample#44 of 63
$0.0074
Avg speed / sample#29 of 63
10.20s
Avg tokens / sample
2.2K

Strengths and weaknesses

GPT-6 Sol averages 76.9% across the five Vision Evals tasks, ranking #12 of 63 models overall.

Its weakest relative showing is OCR, ranking #18 of 47 at 66.7%.

At $0.0074 per sample it is the 44th cheapest of the 63 benchmarked models, and its average inference time of 10.2s per sample makes it the 29th fastest.

Performance profile

Field medianGPT-6 Sol

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)
74.7%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.1 to 75.5
#5 of 63$0.01115.60s
Object Detection (high)
76.4%
±1.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.0 to 77.4
#6 of 31$0.02223.63s
Counting (low)
76.6%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.3 to 78.4
#11 of 63$0.00395.72s
Counting (high)
77.5%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 78.4
#12 of 31$0.007011.03s
Identification (low)
93.8%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8
#8 of 63$0.00274.16s
Identification (high)
92.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
#8 of 31$0.00364.13s
OCR (low)
66.7%
#18 of 47$0.00779.27s
Single value
45.6%
Transcription
88.3%
Structured JSON
83.4%
Text localization
65.7%
OCR (high)
68.8%
#17 of 47$0.01826.43s
Single value
47.4%
Transcription
91.0%
Structured JSON
85.3%
Text localization
68.7%
Reasoning (low)
72.6%
±3.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.5 to 76.8
#15 of 63$0.00378.44s
Reasoning (high)
77.7%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 78.8
#12 of 50$0.00617.37s
  • Thinking longer helps: 1.8 points higher on object detection at high effort for 2x the cost and 1.5x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 0.9 points higher on counting at high effort for 1.8x the cost and 1.9x the latency.
  • Thinking longer does not help: 1 points lower on identification at high effort for 1.4x the cost and 1x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 2.1 points higher on ocr at high effort for 2.4x the cost and 2.9x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 5.1 points higher on reasoning at high effort for 1.6x the cost and 0.9x 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 Sol highlighted

GPT-6 Sol 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 Sol Pricing

GPT-6 Sol costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens.

Input$2.00 / 1M tokens
Output$10.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input$0.200 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Oct 17, 2026

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GPT-6 Sol License

Proprietary

GPT-6 Sol is proprietary: the weights are not distributed, and the GPT-6 Sol 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 Sol 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 Sol Vision

Yes. GPT-6 Sol 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 74.7% (#5 of 63 at low effort). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Yes. it scores 66.7% (#18 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 88.3%, and returning the fields of a label or form as JSON scores 83.4%.

Yes. On Vision Evals, GPT-6 Sol scores 74.7% mAP@50 on object detection (#5 of 63 at low effort) and 76.6% judge-graded accuracy on object counting.

On our benchmark's task mix, GPT-6 Sol averages $0.0074 per sample at $2.00 per 1M input and $10.00 per 1M output tokens (#44 of 63 on cost), with an average speed of 10.2s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, GPT-6 Sol sits #12 of 63 at 76.9%, just behind Gemini 3.6 Flash (77.1%) and just ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro (76.8%). See the full side-by-side: GPT-6 Sol vs Gemini 3.6 Flash.