OpenAI · Workhorses · prices checked 15 October 2026

GPT-6 Sol pricing: API and ChatGPT plans

GPT-6 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, with a 1.05M context window. In ChatGPT, the cheapest plan with it is Plus at $20/mo.

US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Plan prices read 14 October 2026. Newer model: GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-6 Sol · list price
$2 / $10per million tokens, input / output
1,000 support replies
$10.00
Cached input
$0.20
Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Released
22 Sep 2026
Weights
Closed weights

From OpenAI’s own pages, 15 October 2026.

GPT-6 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on OpenAI’s own API, and $0.20 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $10.00, the 16th most expensive of 42 priced models on our list.

In ChatGPT: GPT-6 Sol is included in Plus ($20/mo), Pro (from $100/mo), Business ($25/mo).

chatgpt.com/pricing/ · Read 14 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and include or exclude tax depending on the country.

What a job costs

Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts GPT-6 Sol among the 42 models with a list price.

GPT-6 Sol: cost of 1,000 runs of three jobs
Job1,000 runsAmong 42
Support reply3,000 in, 400 out.$10.0016th most expensive
Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out.$60.0016th most expensive
Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out.$64.0015th most expensive

The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are OpenAI’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.

The small print

What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.

OpenAI points to GPT-6.1 Sol as the newer Sol model. Requests above 272K input tokens bill 2x input and 1.5x output ($4 / $15, cached $0.40). Cache write $2.50. Batch and Flex 50% off, Fast mode 2x. Data residency adds 10%.

GPT-6 Sol against the models it is weighed with

Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.

vs GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI's two Sol releases a week apart, at the same list price with a cheaper cache on 6.1.

Other OpenAI models

Other OpenAI models
ModelInputOutputContext1,000 replies
GPT-6 LunaOpenAI$0.10$0.501.05M$0.50
GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAINewer model: GPT-6 Luna$0.20$1.201.05M$1.08
GPT-5.4 nanoOpenAINewer model: GPT-6 Luna$0.20$1.25400K$1.10
GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI$0.75$4.50400K$4.05
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI$2.00$10.001.05M$10.00
GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAINewer model: GPT-6.1 Sol$2.00$12.001.05M$10.80
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAINewer model: GPT-6.1 Sol$4.00$20.001.05M$20.00
GPT-5.5OpenAINewer model: GPT-6 Astra$5.00$30.001.05M$27.00
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI$10.00$50.001.05M$50.00

Where the price comes from

Read on 15 October 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.

Compare GPT-6 Sol with 45 other models

The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.

Prices checked 15 October 2026 · See them by release date