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GPT-5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

The readout for GPT-5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: GPT-5.6 Sol. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 25.3 to 74.7.

Evidence depth

108 data points

Includes 21 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with GPT-5.6 Sol

The charts below split 31 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5 and GPT-5.6 Sol: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
GPT-5
GPT-5.6 Sol
Overall leaderContenderLeading
Weighted overall score25.3 pts74.7 pts
Benchmark category leads1 categories5 categories
Operational advantagesAverage speed, Free providers, Provider coverageCheapest input price, First-token latency
Context window400K tokens1.1M tokens
Max output128K tokens128K tokens
Modalities

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The overall result weights benchmark capability categories at 80% and price, API speed/latency, and availability at 20%. Recent test volume does not affect the winner, and missing benchmark categories are excluded.

Model metadata

Model compare
GPT-5
GPT-5.6 Sol
DeveloperOpenAIOpenAI
ReleasedAug 2025Jul 2026
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerGPTGPT
Knowledge cutoff2024-09-302026-02-16
OpenRouter IDopenai/gpt-5openai/gpt-5.6-sol
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5 and GPT-5.6 Sol: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

GPT-5

GPT-5 is stronger in benchmark categories (Instruction following) and operational dimensions (Average speed, Free providers, Provider coverage).

GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Coding, Reasoning, Knowledge, Math) and operational dimensions (Cheapest input price, First-token latency).

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
6 / 8
Model B coverage
7 / 8
Shared
6 shared categories

Avg. score

GPT-5

51.9

Avg. score

GPT-5.6 Sol

61

Agents

GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 22.1

GPT-545
GPT-5.6 Sol67.1

Coding

GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 12.8

GPT-549
GPT-5.6 Sol61.8

Reasoning

GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 8.5

GPT-552.7
GPT-5.6 Sol61.2

Knowledge

GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 7.7

GPT-549.5
GPT-5.6 Sol57.2

Math

GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 5.6

GPT-561.4
GPT-5.6 Sol67

Multilingual

No data

GPT-5-
GPT-5.6 Sol-

Multimodal

GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5-
GPT-5.6 Sol59.5

Instruction following

GPT-5 leads by 0.2

GPT-553.6
GPT-5.6 Sol53.4

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Pricingverified

Input price

GPT-5

winner

$1.25/M

Rank #118/179 · confidence 4

+$2.75/M

GPT-5.6 Sol

$4.00/M

Rank #160/179 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

GPT-5

winner

$3.44/M

Rank #134/179 · confidence 4

+$4.56/M

GPT-5.6 Sol

$8.00/M

Rank #162/179 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

GPT-5

winner

$10.00/M

Rank #137/179 · confidence 4

+$10.00/M

GPT-5.6 Sol

$20.00/M

Rank #162/179 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

CritPt

GPT-5

5.7

Rank #38/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+26.6

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

32.3

Rank #1/83 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Reasoningverified

GPQA

GPT-5

67.3%

Rank #142/211 · confidence 4

+25.5%

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

92.8%

Rank #11/211 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

GPT-5

6.0%

Rank #150/208 · confidence 4

+40.0%

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

46.0%

Rank #11/208 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

GPT-5

76.3

Rank #23/100 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+1.4

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

77.7

Rank #15/100 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Codingreported

AA Coding Index

GPT-5

37.8

Rank #53/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+39.6

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

77.4

Rank #2/70 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Codingverified

SciCode

GPT-5

38.8%

Rank #98/204 · confidence 4

+18.1%

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

56.9%

Rank #5/204 · confidence 4

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

GPT-5

42.9

Rank #56/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+13.2

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

56.1

Rank #8/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

GPT-5

85.4

Rank #55/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+8.7

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

94.1

Rank #3/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

GPT-5

28.5

Rank #47/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+21.0

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

49.5

Rank #3/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

GPT-5

40.3

Rank #30/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+19.1

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

59.4

Rank #3/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

GPT-5

35.3

Rank #61/111 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+23.6

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

58.9

Rank #5/111 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

GPT-5

82.2

Rank #36/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+10.0

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

92.2

Rank #12/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Multimodalreported

AA-MMMU-Pro

GPT-5

74.2

Rank #37/65 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+9.2

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

83.4

Rank #4/65 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

GPT-5

winner

73.1

Rank #27/84 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+0.4

GPT-5.6 Sol

72.7

Rank #29/84 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Agentsreported

AA Agentic Index

GPT-5

26.5

Rank #39/65 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+31.3

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

57.8

Rank #4/65 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Agentsreported

GDPval-AA

GPT-5

29.1

Rank #42/61 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+32.0

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

61.1

Rank #5/61 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Agentsreported

GDPval-AA

GPT-5

1083.0

Rank #42/66 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+652.0

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

1735.0

Rank #5/66 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

GPT-5

84.8

Rank #46/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+0.3

GPT-5.6 Sol

winner

85.1

Rank #44/82 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-07-09

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
GPT-5
GPT-5.6 Sol
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
GPT-5
GPT-5.6 Sol
V-API20 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

95 tok/s / 1234ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.6 Sol

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

YUNWU API10 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.6 Sol

speed / latency

53 tok/s / 2164ms

input / output

No data

N1N5 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

102 tok/s / 948ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.6 Sol

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

星辰·AI5 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.6 Sol

speed / latency

37 tok/s / 5320ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.6 Sol

speed / latency

35 tok/s / 4568ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5

gpt-5-chat-latest

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.959/M/$7.67/M

GPT-5.6 Sol

gpt-5.6-sol

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.6 Sol

gpt-5-6-sol

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5

gpt-5-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

GPT-5.6 Sol

gpt-5.6-sol

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.6 Sol

gpt-5.6-sol

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.200/request

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0027/request

GPT-5.6 Sol

gpt-5.6-sol-medium

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.171/M/$1.03/M

FAQ

Weighted outcome: GPT-5.6 Sol. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 6 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.