GPT-5.6 Sol
Fresh input / cached input / output cost breakdown, active and scheduled rates, provenance, same-model deployment markup, and cost-comparable alternatives for this purchasable lane.
Illustrative workloads
Pick a useful starting shape, then fine-tune every input below.
Workload and pricing scenario
Adjust the token shape, cache behavior, time window, and service tier. Every number below updates immediately.
Workload cost calculator
Share of input tokens served from cache. Applied only to models with a cache meter.
Rows with a rate that changes by time of day, promo window or service tier are priced for this scenario instead of their flat listed rate; a brand-colored label under the model name names which one applies. Context size for band-priced rows uses the input-token count below.
Picking a specific hour also previews time-of-day rates that are scheduled but have not started billing yet; those rows are labelled · preview with their start instant. Now only ever shows rates that are billable at this moment.
What this lane charges right now
Priced under the workload and scenario above. The full published schedule below always shows every variant regardless of which scenario is selected.
Where this workload's cost goes
60M input tokens (90% cache hit) and 210K output tokens, at the resolved rate above.
$30.00 + $27.00 + $6.30 = $63.30
How much to trust these numbers
Flagship (hardest reasoning / coding / agentic). GA 2026-07-09. No longer at parity with OpenAI direct: OpenAI cut Sol to $4.00/$0.40/$20.00 on 2026-08-21 as promotional pricing, and this Foundry meter has not followed — Foundry is 1.25x direct on input and cached input, and 1.50x on output.
Azure Retail Prices API 'Foundry Models' meters (5.6 sol Std Gl, effective 2026-07-01; captured 2026-07-21, re-verified unchanged in a full paged sweep on 2026-08-22 — all sol meters still carry the single 2026-07-01 tranche, with no 2026-08-01 tranche of the kind that carried the Terra and Luna cuts). Cache write bills at 1.25x uncached input ($6.25/M meter); reads stay ~90% off. OpenAI's own rate for gpt-5.6-sol, read via raw DOM from developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing on 2026-08-22, is $4.00/$0.40/$20.00 with a $5.00/M cache write, labelled promotional and "available at least through November 21, 2026".
Same-model deployment markup
How much this Foundry lane costs over the same model's Direct API rate.
Not available — no Direct API listing exists for this exact model in the catalog.
Other lanes within ±25% of this workload's cost
Same provider first, then ranked by cost proximity, for 60M in / 210K out. This is a cost ranking only — never a quality recommendation.
- GPT-5.5OpenAI / Azure OpenAISame providerFoundry ·Global$63.30CHF 50.96$0.00 (0%) vs this lane
- GPT-5.5OpenAI / Azure OpenAISame providerFoundry ·Data Zone$69.63CHF 56.05+$6.33 (+10%) vs this lane
- GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI / Azure OpenAISame providerFoundry ·Data Zone$69.63CHF 56.05+$6.33 (+10%) vs this lane
- GPT-5.6 Terra Long ContextOpenAI / Azure OpenAISame providerFoundry ·Global$49.38CHF 39.75-$13.92 (-22%) vs this lane
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Standard)ClaudeDirect API$62.25CHF 50.11-$1.05 (-2%) vs this lane
- Claude Opus 5ClaudeDirect API$62.25CHF 50.11-$1.05 (-2%) vs this lane