OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding and Computer Use at One-Fifth of Astra’s Token Price
This week, OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol. It upgrades GPT-6 Sol, the mid-tier model in the GPT-6 family. OpenAI’s claim is specific: near-Astra results on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work. The price is one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s standard input and output rates. Cached input drops to $0.10 per million tokens, 50% below GPT-6 Sol. Is it deployable? Yes, as a hosted model. It is live today in the OpenAI API as gpt-6.1-sol, and in ChatGPT Work and Codex. Where So
OpenAI released a mid-tier model that performs comparably to its highest-tier model on coding and professional work tasks but costs one-fifth as much. The model includes a large context window of 1,050,000 tokens, supports five levels of reasoning effort, and is available through the API and in hosted applications. This matters because it offers organizations a cost-effective option for agentic tasks and computer use without sacrificing performance on key benchmarks compared to more expensive competitors. The model fits into OpenAI's three-tier GPT-6 pricing strategy, positioned between the most expensive tier and the most affordable tier.
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