GPT-5.6 Sol pricing.
prices as of · 44 providers · 45 prices
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol holds 1M tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Closed weights: only OpenAI and its licensed partners run it, so every other price below resells the same service.
GPT-5.6 Sol costs $4 in and $20 out per million tokens from OpenAI; the cheapest price we can explain is $16 at Nous Portal, checked 16 Sept 2026.
OpenAI list price
$32/M tokens
$4 in · $20 out
read · 801% above the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$16/M tokens
$2 in · $10 out · 50% under list
Nous Portalread
What it costs for your work
OpenAI list price
$3.60a month
cheapest we can explain · Nous Portal
$1.80a month
difference
$1.80saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling GPT-5.6 Sol
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenAI's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
OpenAIThe price OpenAI charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cheaper, and we know why
1 priceBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Nous Portal
Resells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
$2 / $10in / out per M
0.50×of list price
Same price as the maker
35 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
OrcaRouterThe same price OpenAI charges.
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
CrossModelThe same price OpenAI charges.
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
GitHub CopilotThe same price OpenAI charges.
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4 / $20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$4.22 / $21.10in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$4.40 / $22in / out per M
1.10×of list price
Vivgrid25% above OpenAI's price.
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
AIHubMix25% above OpenAI's price.
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
- routing.run
25% above OpenAI's price.
1M context here$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
SAP AI Core25% above OpenAI's price.
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
Azure Cognitive Services25% above OpenAI's price.
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
Opper25% above OpenAI's price.
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
Merge Gateway25% above OpenAI's price.
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
$5 / $30in / out per M
1.41×of list price
showing the 25 cheapest of 35 · every row in the open dataset
Cheaper, and nobody says why
8 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
OpenRouter0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2 / $10in / out per M
0.50×of list price
NanoGPT0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2 / $10in / out per M
0.50×of list price
Vercel AI Gateway0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2 / $10in / out per M
0.50×of list price
Cloudflare AI Gateway0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2 / $10in / out per M
0.50×of list price
OpenCode Zen0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2 / $10in / out per M
0.50×of list price
Xpersona0.38× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why.
372k context hereXpersona ↗$1.50 / $12in / out per M
0.52×of list price
- Infer by Flow7
0.63× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
272k context here$2.50 / $12.50in / out per M
0.63×of list price
KenariWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
$5.20 / $31in / out per M
1.46×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells GPT-5.6 Sol cheapest?
- Nous Portal, at $2 in and $10 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Resells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
- Is GPT-5.6 Sol open weights?
- No. OpenAI keeps the weights, so every price on this page is OpenAI's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
- How much context does GPT-5.6 Sol hold?
- 1,050,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1.1M, and it can call your own functions.
- How does GPT-5.6 Sol compare with the rest of the market?
- At $32 per million tokens, OpenAI's price is 801% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.