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GPT 6 Sol

Added Sep 22, 2026

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GPT-6 Sol is the cost-efficient high-end model in OpenAI's GPT-6 series, positioned below the flagship GPT-6 Astra and above the fast GPT-6 Luna tier. It is suited for demanding professional work, reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
  • PDF input
Input
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning effort
none · low · medium · high · xhigh · max
Discovery tier
Frontier

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
Cache read
$0.20
Cache write
$2.50

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1.1M
Max output
128K
Average output (7 days)
315 tokens
Longer than 34% of 473 models

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GPT 6 Sol compared

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GPT 6 SolOpenAIThis modelGPT 6 LunaOpenAIRemove
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Discovery tierFrontierEfficient
AddedSep 22, 2026Sep 22, 2026
Limits
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output128K128K
Average output315 tokens120 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$2.00$0.10Best
Output$10.00$0.50Best
Cache read$0.20$0.01Best
Cache write$2.50$0.13Best
Performance
Throughput—225.9 tok/s
Time to first token—3.4 s
Request success (24h)100.0%Best99.9%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index39.8Best29.9
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputYesYes
Reasoning effortnone, low, medium, high, xhigh, maxnone, low, medium, high, xhigh, max

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • GPT 6 Sol
  • GPT 6 Luna

Intelligence Index

  • GPT 6 Sol39.8
  • GPT 6 Luna29.9

GPT 6 Sol tested at medium reasoning effort

GPT 6 Sol: Better than 84% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • GPT 6 Sol: 58.0%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 40.5%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • GPT 6 Sol: 28.2%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 10.2%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • GPT 6 Sol: 1,148 EloTop
    • GPT 6 Luna: 1,097 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • GPT 6 Sol: 1,346 EloTop
    • GPT 6 Luna: 1,263 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • GPT 6 Sol: 23.8%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 13.8%

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • GPT 6 Sol: 82.3%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 78.3%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • GPT 6 Sol: 28.9%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 18.3%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • GPT 6 Sol: 41.0%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 28.3%

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • GPT 6 Sol: 18.7%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 2.5%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • GPT 6 Sol: 53.8%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 50.9%

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • GPT 6 Sol: 82.3%Top
    • GPT 6 Luna: 78.3%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT 6 Sol was tested at medium reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Prompt cache hits
39.8%
About $1.28 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
100.0%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 85.7%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/gpt-6-sol",
    "reasoning_effort": "medium",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-6-sol",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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