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

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

OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-81.2
Input Price$1.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$5.00/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-78.4

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) costs $2.25 and GPT-6 Sol costs $4.50, so GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) 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-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) scores higher on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), GPT-6 Sol on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) if you need lower cost; pick GPT-6 Sol 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-6.1 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol
SQL Generation 133 142
Code Review 132 146
Code Completion 118 119
Code Refactoring 136 148
Bug Fixing 136 150
Unit Test Generation 124 133
Code Documentation 130 136
Regex Writing 118 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 129
Frontend Component Design 122 131
Data Analysis 124 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 128 139
JSON Extraction 122 121
Bulk Data Labeling 120 118
OCR / Document Parsing 131 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 134
Long-Document Summarization 137 149
Short-Form Summarization 114 117
Blog Post Writing 121 130

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

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