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GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-6 Sol: which is smarter?

GPT-5.6 Sol has an SI-IQ of 140 and GPT-6 Sol has 140. The table compares them area by area using only independent benchmark results.

Data as of Oct 18, 2026 · method 1.0.0

MetricGPT-5.6 SolGPT-6 Sol
SI-IQ140137–143140137–144
Reasoning140139
Math141143
Knowledge139138
DeveloperOpenAIOpenAI
ReleasedJul 9, 2026Sep 22, 2026
AccessAPI accessAPI access
Price in / out (USD per 1M tokens)$4.00 / $20$2.00 / $10
Benchmarks used99
GPT-5.6 SolGPT-6 Sol
130140150SI-IQReasoningMathKnowledge

Benchmarks every compared model was tested on

Raw scores as published by the evaluators.

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGPT-6 Sol
Chess Puzzles59.0%56.0%
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%90.0%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–389.1%89.8%
Furniture Assembly56.7%58.3%
GPQA Diamond93.5%94.3%
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run)92.3%92.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles58.0%56.0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025100.0%100.0%
SimpleQA Verified69.7%60.7%
τ²-bench Airline (OpenRouter run)73.3%70.2%

The difference of 0 points is within the statistical uncertainty: the two models are roughly on par.

Data sources: Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); LiteLLM, model_prices_and_context_window.json (MIT); Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), licensed under CC BY 4.0: reuse and republish with attribution to OpenRouter (licences and changes).