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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol

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
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score98100
Benchmark Score-80.2
Input Price$4.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$20.00/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-77.5

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.6 Sol costs $4.50 and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro costs $9.00, so GPT-5.6 Sol is about 2.0 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 on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol 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
SQL Generation 129 142
Code Review 130 146
Code Completion 113 119
Code Refactoring 134 148
Bug Fixing 134 150
Unit Test Generation 122 133
Code Documentation 125 136
Regex Writing 113 125
CI/CD Pipelines 118 129
Frontend Component Design 120 131
Data Analysis 122 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 135
ETL Scripting 126 138
JSON Extraction 117 121
Bulk Data Labeling 112 118
OCR / Document Parsing 129 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 134
Long-Document Summarization 133 149
Short-Form Summarization 109 117
Blog Post Writing 117 130

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

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