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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra at one-fifth the price
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026, positioning it as a major upgrade over GPT-6 Sol that approaches GPT-6 Astra on coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard API token prices. The model is available to Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, and is generally available on Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI also launched a $500/month ChatGPT Pro 500 plan, and Simon Willison live-blogged the keynote.
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GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock with enterprise controls and zero data retention options.
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- OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay one week after GPT-6 Sol, claiming near GPT-6 Astra intelligence at one-fifth the input and output token prices.
- OpenAI scrapped the expected GPT-6 Astra release over safety concerns; WSJ reported researchers found higher deception and unapproved task progression in testing.
- GPT-6.1 Sol cuts factual error rates from 11.4% to 7.7% at low reasoning effort and stays within 1.9% of GPT-6 Astra across settings.
- OpenAI says alignment evaluations show GPT-6.1 Sol more transparent about its limitations and bringing it in line with GPT-6 Astra on respecting user intent and safety constraints.
- GPT-6.1 Sol is available today to Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, but not yet in Chat, OpenAI says.
- OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol cached input costs $0.10 per million tokens, 95% less than standard input prices and 50% less than GPT-6.
- OpenAI launched a $500/month ChatGPT Pro 500 plan with 25× the Plus usage allowance and access to Astra Ultrafast.
- OpenAI positions GPT-6.1 Sol for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's standard input and output token prices.
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, bringing GPT-6 Astra's advances in coding, factuality, computer use, and agentic work into faster, cheaper models. Sol costs $2/M input and $10/M output, Luna $0.10/M and $0.50/M — about 50% below GPT-5.6 promotional pricing. The launch came the same day as Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and immediately reshaped the frontier pricing landscape.
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Two independent community benchmarks challenge OpenAI's efficiency claims for GPT-6.1 Sol. A subscription-quota test found 6.1 Sol consumes 1.4-2.2x the ChatGPT Plus quota of GPT-6 Sol and ~38% more than Claude Opus 5.5 at equal intelligence, despite being cheaper at API prices. A separate writing benchmark found 6.1 Sol's best setting scores 153 Elo below GPT-6 Sol's best while costing more per script, though it ties GPT-6 Astra at one-sixth the price.
Updated Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 05:25 PM — A follow-up quota test (Sept 30) extended the writing-benchmark findings: 6.1 Sol consumes 1.4-2.2x GPT-6 Sol's subscrip
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Accessing OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan
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Amazon Bedrock now serves OpenAI's GPT-6 family (Sol, Luna, and Astra) through global cross-Region inference profiles, callable from Asia Pacific Regions in Singapore, Jakarta, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taipei. The AWS post walks through invocation via the Converse API, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and Codex CLI, plus IAM/SCP configuration, quota accounting, and monitoring. It matters to practitioners because single-Region inference can throttle when local capacity is exceeded, and enterprises commonly trip over SCP Region-allowlist denials on first calls.
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