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OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol is priced below Astra and posts reported benchmark gains

latent.space by Latent.Space 25 min read Editor score 6/10

The roundup reports Sol pricing of $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, versus Astra at $10/$50, and claimed gains on DeepSWE v1.1 and AutomationBench. The cost and task-performance claims offer a useful comparison point for model selection.

What

OpenAI priced GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, compared with $10/$50 for Astra.

How

Sol reportedly beat GPT-6 Sol by 6.4 points on DeepSWE v1.1 and Opus 5.5 by 2.2 points on AutomationBench.

Why it matters

Agent Arena reported Sol [Max] at a $0.56 median cost per task, illustrating the cost-performance tradeoffs engineers weigh when choosing models.

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