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GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI's frontier flagship model release in the GPT-5.6 family for complex professional work, with text and image input and text output. OpenAI's preview announcement describes it as strongest for agentic coding, research, biology, and cybersecurity workflows with strengthened safeguards.

Pricing

Model profile · Current snapshot
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$30.00
Blended / 1M
$11.25
Output TPS
57.6
TTFT (s)
6.12

Model Intelligence

Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Arena ranking
54
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
53.6
Coding Index
76.3
GPQA
0.93
HLE
0.4
SciCode
0.57
IFBench
0.7
LCR
0.69
TerminalBench Hard
0.63
TAU2
0.81

Recent stories

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workflowSECONDARY2026-07-28
Opus 5 reportedly builds playable Godot car-soccer prototype in 1.5 days

LLMJunky demoed Slopet League, a Rocket League-style prototype in Godot, saying Opus 5 made the map, physics, effects, and animations. He says GPT 5.6 Sol made car meshes and the build took about 1.5 days.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-26
Designers release reusable prompt templates for AI front-end agents

Shared resources included design-skills repos, a UI visual dictionary, CRM table tokens, and Claude Opus 5 website prompts. The reusable context can speed front-end generation but does not replace product-specific design choices.

releaseSECONDARY2026-07-16
Kimi K3 gets creator tests against GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5

Creators posted open-weights benchmarks and tests comparing Kimi K3 with GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5. Demos covered UI animation, games, Seedance renders, kernel code, and reported OpenRouter rate limits.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-16
Higgsfield shows MCP cartoon pipeline with GPT-5.6 Sol, Seedream 5.0 Pro, and Seedance 2.0

Higgsfield demonstrated a cartoon pipeline where GPT-5.6 Sol writes the story, Seedream 5.0 Pro builds character sheets, locations, and storyboards, and Seedance 2.0 animates the output. The workflow connects story, visual planning, and animation steps through an MCP setup.

newsPRIMARY2026-07-15
Goodside benchmarks GPT-5.6 Sol Pro on 150- and 1,025-Pokémon crossword tests

Goodside compared Claude Fable 5 Max puzzle generation with GPT-5.6 Sol Pro solving attempts. Sol solved a 150-Pokémon empty crossword but failed the 1,025-Pokémon version, with one reported success traced to the answer key.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-14
Sol and Claude Code build 3D scenes from reference images

Demos from Gokay and Meng To used video, object-view, and image references to generate HTML, Three.js, or Blender scenes. The builds paired Sol or Claude Code with tools including Reve, HyperFrames, and Blender MCP.

newsPRIMARY2026-07-13
GPT-5.6 Sol demos add Blender, After Effects, Three.js, and SQL DOOM builds

Min Choi collected early GPT-5.6 Sol builds spanning Blender scenes, After Effects automation, Three.js characters, UI cloning, SQL DOOM, and Claude Code tests. Meng To also published a video-to-HTML workflow.

newsPRIMARY2026-07-12
Goodside tests GPT-5.6 Sol on fake handwriting and Ghost Font prompts

Goodside tested GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 with fake handwriting, constrained-vocabulary prompts, and Ghost Font. Sol often answered unreadable inputs, while Fable more often refused or pushed back.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-12
Min Choi maps Grok 4.5, Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol to coding roles

Min Choi's workflow assigned Grok 4.5 to research and debugging, Fable 5 to planning and frontend, and GPT-5.6 Sol to complex coding. Shann Holmberg added tactics for effort levels and usage limits.

newsPRIMARY2026-07-11
Goodside benchmarks GPT-5.6 Sol hallucinations on binary noise

Goodside fed GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 binary noise and meaningless handwriting. Sol often invented hidden text, while Fable also failed on noise but more often pushed back on scribbles.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-11
Meng To uses GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to build an infinite React design canvas

Meng To says Sol Ultra generated an HTML/React canvas with layers, inspector panels, media items, and real-time collaboration. The test used planning and subagents, but it burned through limits.

releasePRIMARY2026-07-10
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra ships general availability

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra became generally available, and early users tested it on cinematic sites, games, Blender scenes, and Seedance comparisons. Reports praised orchestration but noted mixed physics and one 2B-token overnight run.

releasePRIMARY2026-07-09
GPT-5.6 Sol gets creator tests in Figma Make and Fable 5 comparisons

GPT-5.6 Sol appeared in Figma Make and creator benchmarks against Fable 5 across design, games, and video. Testers praised browser persistence and design output, while noting higher token use and mode confusion.

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