GPT-5.6 Sol (low) vs. GPT-5.6 Terra (high)
Comparison between GPT-5.6 Sol (low) and GPT-5.6 Terra (high) across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 34 | 34 | |
| AA-Briefcase | 1042 | 1201 | |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1355 | 1415 | |
| AutomationBench-AA | 41% | 42% | |
| Terminal-Bench v4.0 | 1% | 2% | |
| SciCode | 56% | 52% | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 39% | 39% | |
| GDP.pdf | 21% | 21% | |
| CritPt | 15% | 23% | |
| AA-Omniscience | 19 | −3 | |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 78% | 78% | |
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $3.08 | $1.74 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $4.00 | $2.00 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $20.00 | $12.00 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $0.40 | $0.20 | |
| Cost per Task | $0.26 | $0.34 | |
| Cost to Run Intelligence Index | $637 | $768 | |
| Token Use | |||
| Output Tokens per Task | 4k | 11k | |
| Reasoning Tokens per Task | 837 | 5k | |
| Output Tokens to Run Intelligence Index | 13M | 33M | |
| Performance | |||
| Output Speed | 67 tokens/s | 97 tokens/s | |
| Time to First Token | 2.61s | 2.28s | |
| Time to First Answer Token | 2.61s | 2.28s | |
| End-to-End Response Time | 10.03s | 7.43s | |
| Time per Task | 59.24s | 115.07s | |
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 1000k tokens~1,500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 1000k tokens~1,500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | July 2026 | July 2026 | |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes | |
| Input modality | text, image | text, image | |
| Output modality | text | text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | No | No | |
Highlights
IntelligenceUpdated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate
Agentic business operations
Scientific reasoning
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Instruction following
Long-horizon agentic tasks
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
AA-Briefcase
AA-Briefcase Elo
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Openness Index
Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Token Use
Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)
Model Size: Total and Active Parameters
Frequently Asked Questions
Both models score 34 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
GPT-5.6 Terra (high) is faster. GPT-5.6 Terra (high) generates 97.1 tokens per second, compared with GPT-5.6 Sol (low) at 67.4 tokens per second.
GPT-5.6 Terra (high) is cheaper. GPT-5.6 Terra (high) costs $1.74 per 1M tokens, compared with GPT-5.6 Sol (low) at $3.08 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
GPT-5.6 Terra (high) has lower latency. GPT-5.6 Terra (high) has a time to first token of 2.28s, compared with GPT-5.6 Sol (low) at 2.61s.
Both models have a context window of 1.0M tokens.