GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. It is suited for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at command-line and multi-step coding tasks and long-horizon problem solving.
Modalities
In / Out Price
$2 / $10per 1M
Context
1.1M
Released
Jul 9, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff
Feb 2026
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Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) Intelligence Index | 39.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) Coding Index | 76.3 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) Agentic Index | 40.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) GPQA Diamond | 92.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) HLE | 42.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) IFBench | 69.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) τ²-Bench Telecom | 81.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) AA-LCR | 80.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) GDPval-AA | 47.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) CritPt | 22.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) SciCode | 57.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) Terminal-Bench Hard | 62.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 57.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 9.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) Intelligence Index | 47.1 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) Coding Index | 77.4 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) Agentic Index | 50.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) GPQA Diamond | 94.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) HLE | 49.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) IFBench | 72.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) τ²-Bench Telecom | 85.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) AA-LCR | 84.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) GDPval-AA | 56.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) CritPt | 32.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) SciCode | 57.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) Terminal-Bench Hard | 65.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 59.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 7.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) Intelligence Index | 44.1 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) Coding Index | 78.3 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) Agentic Index | 47.8 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) GPQA Diamond | 93.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) HLE | 47.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) IFBench | 71.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) τ²-Bench Telecom | 84.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) AA-LCR | 82.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) GDPval-AA | 54.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) CritPt | 28.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) SciCode | 57.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) Terminal-Bench Hard | 61.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 58.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 8.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) Intelligence Index | 33.8 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) Coding Index | 69.7 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) Agentic Index | 32.6 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) GPQA Diamond | 89.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) HLE | 39.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) IFBench | 66.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) τ²-Bench Telecom | 76.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) AA-LCR | 78.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) GDPval-AA | 42.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) CritPt | 14.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) SciCode | 56.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) Terminal-Bench Hard | 60.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 57.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 10.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) Coding Index | 65.1 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) Agentic Index | 29.4 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond | 79.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) HLE | 16.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR | 62.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) GDPval-AA | 38.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) CritPt | 5.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) SciCode | 47.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 48.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 7.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) Intelligence Index | 42.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) Coding Index | 77.2 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) Agentic Index | 44.7 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) GPQA Diamond | 92.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) HLE | 46.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) IFBench | 69.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) τ²-Bench Telecom | 83.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) AA-LCR | 81.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) GDPval-AA | 51.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) CritPt | 25.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) SciCode | 57.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) Terminal-Bench Hard | 62.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 58.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 8.8% |
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. It is suited for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at command-line and multi-step coding tasks and long-horizon problem solving.
GPT-5.6 Sol costs $2.00/M input tokens and $10.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.20/M tokens, Cache Write at $2.50/M tokens and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.
GPT-5.6 Sol has a 1,050,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.
Yes. GPT-5.6 Sol accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
GPT-5.6 Sol accepts files such as PDFs, images and text as input and returns text.
GPT-5.6 Sol is served by 3 providers on OpenRouter: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock and Azure. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
GPT-5.6 Sol was released on July 9, 2026. Its knowledge cutoff is February 16, 2026.
