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GPT-6 Astra: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price

Model summary

Intelligence

53
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
4 out of 4 units for Intelligence.

Speed

60.2
Output tokens per second
2 out of 4 units for Speed.

Cost

In $10.00Out $50.00Cache Discount 90%
$3.26
Cost per Intelligence Index task
4 out of 4 units for Cost.

Verbosity

60M
Output tokens from Intelligence Index
2 out of 4 units for Verbosity.

The GPT-6 Astra release offers 5 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across the 5 models.

  • For intelligence, the top model of GPT-6 Astra is GPT-6 Astra (Max) at 53.
  • For output speed, the fastest model is GPT-6 Astra (Max) at 60 t/s.
  • For latency, GPT-6 Astra (Low) at 2.80s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
  • For pricing, GPT-6 Astra (Low) at $0.82 offers the lowest cost per task. Prices vary up to 4x across models.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better
Output tokens per second · Higher is better
Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task
Most attractive quadrant
GPT-6 Astra
Pareto line

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries
Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic SaaS workflows

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Reasoning & knowledge

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Agentic coding & terminal use

Long context reasoning

SciCodeUnder review

Coding

CritPtUnder review

Physics reasoning

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Medical long context reasoning

Visual reasoning

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Further details

Weights
Provider Benchmarks
GPT-6 Astra (Max)
OpenAI logoOpenAI
53
-
1M
$7.7
60
Not available
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GPT-6 Astra (Xhigh)
OpenAI logoOpenAI
52
-
1M
$7.7
55
Not available
OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra (High)
OpenAI logoOpenAI
51
-
1M
$7.7
53
Not available
OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra (Medium)
OpenAI logoOpenAI
50
-
1M
$7.7
53
Not available
OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra (Low)
OpenAI logoOpenAI
46
-
1M
$7.7
52
Not available
OpenAIMicrosoft Azure