GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
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- GPT-5.6 Sol is listed as OpenAI's flagship model in the GPT-5.6 series, marketed for complex reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and command-line/multi-step coding tasks
- OpenRouter prices GPT-5.6 Sol at $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window
- The model was released July 9, 2026, with a knowledge cutoff of February 2026
- OpenRouter routes requests to one of several hosting providers using Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy) routing modes
- Performance metrics show 68 tokens/second throughput at the P50 best across providers and 2.43s latency at the best provider, with 100% uptime and 99.75% availability over the past 3 days
- The platform notes that caching and discounts often bring the actual paid price well below the listed rate, and per-provider uptime data is accessible via OpenRouter's Endpoints API
Why it matters: The listing establishes GPT-5.6 Sol as OpenAI's flagship coding and reasoning offering on third-party infrastructure, with a 1M context window at $2.50 input / $15 output per million tokens — and OpenRouter's multi-provider setup means buyers can compare real paid prices against the posted rates on a per-provider basis.
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