OpenAI Puts a Price Ratio on Its New Coding Model
OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Sol, describing it as near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work, priced at one-fifth of Astra's standard API input and output token prices. The pricing is a concrete number to check against a price list. The intelligence framing is the company's own positioning rather than a published benchmark result, so how close the model actually comes to Astra on the coding and computer-use tasks named in the announcement is a claim still to be tested.
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The one-fifth figure is the cleanest part of the announcement, because a user can verify it against a pricing page. 'Near-Astra intelligence' cannot be checked the same way.
Token prices are also the easiest thing to revise later. The durable question is whether the cheaper model holds up on the coding and computer-use work the company is naming.