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OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) vs OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-30.

OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score89.281.2
Input Price$1.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$5.00/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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Benchmark Scores
ai_index85.578.4

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $2.25 at current list prices.

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

On our blended benchmark score GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) leads 89.2 to 81.2.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) if you need benchmark performance 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-6.1 Sol (batch)OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)
SQL Generation 143 142
Code Review 148 146
Code Completion 120 120
Code Refactoring 149 148
Bug Fixing 152 150
Unit Test Generation 134 133
Code Documentation 138 137
Regex Writing 127 126
CI/CD Pipelines 130 129
Frontend Component Design 132 131
Data Analysis 136 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 136
ETL Scripting 140 139
OCR / Document Parsing 135 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 134
Long-Document Summarization 151 149
Short-Form Summarization 119 118
Blog Post Writing 131 130

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

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