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GPT-5.6 Sol token cost

OpenAI · context 1,050,000 tokens · tokenizer Exact

When to use GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI GPT-5.6 flagship tier for hard coding and agent jobs when Astra is more than you need. Prefer Sol for broad frontier work at lower list rates than GPT-6 Astra.

Pricing

Input
$4.00/1M
Output
$20.00/1M
Cached input
$0.400/1M
Batch input
$2.00/1M
Long-context input (≥272,000)
$8.00/1M
Long-context output
$30.00/1M
Long-context cached input
$0.800/1M
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Promotional list rates at least through 2026-11-21. Prompts over 272K input tokens reprice the full request at the long-context band. Fast mode is 2× standard.

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