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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score98100
Input Price$4.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$20.00/M$5.00/M
Context Window1,050,0001,050,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) costs $2.25 and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro costs $9.00, so GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) is about 4.0 times cheaper for the same work.

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 Pro (batch) on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) if you need lower cost or 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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)
SQL Generation 129 133
Code Review 130 132
Code Completion 113 118
Code Refactoring 134 136
Bug Fixing 134 136
Unit Test Generation 122 124
Code Documentation 125 130
Regex Writing 113 118
CI/CD Pipelines 118 120
Frontend Component Design 120 122
Data Analysis 122 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 133
ETL Scripting 126 128
JSON Extraction 117 122
Bulk Data Labeling 112 120
OCR / Document Parsing 129 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 131
Long-Document Summarization 133 137
Short-Form Summarization 109 114
Blog Post Writing 117 121

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

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