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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-99.3
Input Price$2.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$10.00/M$10.00/M
Context Window1,050,0001,050,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-97.2
ai_index_agentic-89.1
ai_index_coding-100.0

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $4.50 at current list prices.

Both read up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) if you need the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)
SQL Generation 132 173
Code Review 132 170
Code Completion 117 119
Code Refactoring 136 166
Bug Fixing 136 185
Unit Test Generation 124 156
Code Documentation 129 143
Regex Writing 117 136
CI/CD Pipelines 120 146
Frontend Component Design 122 148
Data Analysis 124 175
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 154
ETL Scripting 128 156
JSON Extraction 121 139
Bulk Data Labeling 118 124
OCR / Document Parsing 131 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 147
Long-Document Summarization 136 161
Short-Form Summarization 113 123
Blog Post Writing 120 141

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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