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GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6 Sol API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GPT-6 Sol costs $0.007 per request and GPT-6 Astra costs $0.035, so GPT-6 Sol is about 5× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard GPT-6 Astra ranks #2 and GPT-6 Sol ranks #10.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensGPT-6 AstraGPT-6 Sol
Input$10$2
Output$50$10
Cached input$1$0.2
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Release date2026-09-032026-09-22
Overall rank#2#10
Coding rank#2#5
Reasoning rank#2#7
Knowledge rank#2#14
Professional work rank#8#22
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageGPT-6 AstraGPT-6 SolDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.035$35 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000GPT-6 Sol is 5× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$1.1$1,100 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000GPT-6 Sol is 5× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$7.5$7,500 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000GPT-6 Sol is 5× cheaper

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