Compare GPT 5.6 Sol from OpenAI and GPT 6 Astra from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GPT 5.6 SolGPT 6 AstraGPT‑5.6 Sol sets a new standard for both intelligence and efficiency, achieving state-of-the-art results across coding, knowledge work, cybersecurity, and science while outperforming previous and competing frontier models with fewer tokens and at lower estimated cost.
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's newest and most intelligent model, with industry-leading performance in computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, scientific research, and professional work. It excels at executing multi-step workflows across code, browsers, and various professional software. Astra can achieve better results with significantly fewer output tokens, making its estimated API cost per task lower.
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GPT 5.6 Sol: $20/M output tokens; GPT 6 Astra: $50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GPT 5.6 Sol: 4.2s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GPT 5.6 Sol accepts 1,050,000 and GPT 6 Astra accepts 1,050,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GPT 5.6 Sol and 128,000 tokens on GPT 6 Astra.
GPT 5.6 Sol at 39.0 tok/s and GPT 6 Astra at 19.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GPT 5.6 Sol accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, thinking and structured outputs; GPT 6 Astra accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, thinking and structured outputs.
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