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GPT-6.1 Sol

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Live — Sep 29, launched at DevDay · $2/$10 per 1M, cached input $0.10 (half of GPT-6 Sol's) · in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu, not yet in Chat · OpenAI says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at a fifth of Astra's price · 1.05M ctx as OpenRouter lists it, which also carries gpt-6.1-sol-pro (the same model in a pro reasoning mode) · Ultrafast (up to 8x faster in Codex) 'in the coming days' · our sweep read gpt-6.1-sol on OpenAI's public model docs at 17:23 UTC and fired at 17:24, about 20 minutes after the keynote. On the board as live since 2026-09-29 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.

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Timeline

2026-09-29
GPT-6.1 Sol verified live — detected in a live catalog, alert fired at 17:24:45 UTCverified
2026-09-29
GPT-6.1 Sol ships at DevDay at $2/$10, and OpenAI says it nearly matches Astrapost

OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at its DevDay keynote on September 29. It is available now in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu users, not yet in Chat, and in the API as gpt-6.1-sol.

The official word

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GPT-6.1 Sol: quick answers

Is GPT-6.1 Sol out?

Yes. GPT-6.1 Sol is live and has been since September 29, 2026.

When was GPT-6.1 Sol released?

September 29, 2026.

Who makes GPT-6.1 Sol?

OpenAI. ArtificialWatch also tracks GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-Live-1, GPT-Image-2.5, GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT-5.6, GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast from OpenAI.

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