GPT-5.6 Sol is cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo at $5/M vs $10/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
GPT-4 Turbo: Hour-by-Hour Action Plan for Next 48 Hours: Hour 1-2: Immediate Consultation with Key Executives Meet with the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Legal Officer, and Chief Financial Officer to discuss the finding. Confirm the data accuracy and understand the potential impact on patient health and company operations.
GPT-5.6 Sol: Executive decision I would treat this as a credible, material patient-safety signal, not wait six months for a completed regulatory process. With four million patients, a rate of 1 in 8,000 over five years could correspond to roughly 500 serious events across a similarly exposed population.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GPT-4 Turbo: Hey everyone! Great to be here! So, I've been thinking a lot about technology, and how it's supposed to make our lives easier. But sometimes, I feel like it just gives us a whole new set of problems. Like, remember when a phone was just a phone? Now it's my camera, my GPS, my fitness tracker...
GPT-5.6 Sol: I’ve realized adulthood is mostly just moving objects from one place to another and hoping that counts as progress. Every weekend, I clean my apartment. I take everything off the table, wipe the table, then put everything back on the table in a slightly more organized pile. And I stand there like, “Incredible.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
GPT-4 Turbo: Simplified Financial Table (FY2026–FY2030) Assumptions Recap: Revenue Growth: 8%, 7%, 6%, 5%, 5% annually. EBITDA Margin: Increases annually from 14.0% to 17.0%. Capex: 3.0% of revenue annually. Change in NWC: 0.5% of incremental revenue annually. Cash Tax Rate: 25% on (EBITDA - cash interest).
GPT-5.6 Sol: Sources & Uses at Entry All figures in $ millions. Uses $m Sources $m Enterprise value: $120 × 12.0x 1,440.0 Term Loan: $120 × 4.0x 480.0 Transaction fees: 2.0% × $1,440 28.8 Mezzanine: $120 × 1.5x 180.0 Sponsor equity 808.8 Total uses 1,468.8 Total sources 1,468.8 Assumptions: Term Loan interest is calculated on…
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
GPT-4 Turbo: Recipe: Heavenly Honey Garlic Chicken Bites Ingredients: Chicken breasts (2 large) Garlic powder (1 tablespoon) Honey (1/4 cup) Soy sauce (2 tablespoons) Olive oil (2 tablespoons) Salt (to taste) Black pepper (to taste) Prep/Cook Time: 25 minutes (Prep: 10 mins, Cook: 15 mins) Instructions: Prepare the Chicken: Cut the…
GPT-5.6 Sol: Pantry-Gold Peanut Butter Oat Cookies Chewy, warmly spiced cookies made with exactly seven pantry staples. Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10–12 minutes Makes: About 14 cookies 7 Ingredients 1 cup peanut butter ¾ cup brown sugar 1 large egg 1 cup rolled oats ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon…
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
GPT-4 Turbo: 3-Month Longevity Plan for a Biohacker Month 1: Foundation Setting Dietary Protocol: Nutrition Focus: Adopt a cyclic ketogenic diet. Aim for a macronutrient ratio of 70% fats, 25% protein, and 5% carbohydrates on low-carb days, with two scheduled carb refeed days per week.
GPT-5.6 Sol: Below is a 12-week framework for a generally healthy adult. It is designed to improve validated proxies—cardiorespiratory fitness, strength, body composition, blood pressure, sleep, metabolic health and cognition—not to promise life extension in three months.
A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.
GPT-4 Turbo: Weakest Claim 1: Vision - "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it." Why It's Weak: The claim of predicting what one wants to type before even thinking it seems scientifically and technically exaggerated.
GPT-5.6 Sol: “Our non-invasive EEG headband decodes neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy—any language, any device.” Why it’s weak “94% accuracy” is undefined. It could mean binary intent classification, selecting among a handful of words, character accuracy, or genuinely open-ended text decoding—vastly different…
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
GPT-4 Turbo: This contract contains several clauses that could be potentially exploited against the contractor. Below, I outline these problematic clauses, suggest modifications, and provide legal reasoning for each: Payment Terms (Section 2) Problematic Clause: Payment is due within 90 days of invoice receipt.
GPT-5.6 Sol: This is a contract-risk review, not jurisdiction-specific legal advice. Enforceability—especially for non-competes, fee shifting, arbitration, confidentiality, and indemnification—depends heavily on governing law. A lawyer in the applicable jurisdiction should review the final draft.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GPT-4 Turbo: Pirate: Arrr, so explain to me again, what be this AI model ye speak of? Hacker: Dude, it’s like, a computer program, right? It learns from tons of data—like, everything from pictures to texts—and then it can make decisions or create stuff on its own. Knight: Pray, tell me, does this creation serve a noble purpose?
GPT-5.6 Sol: Pirate: Arrr, this AI model’s swallowed more words than the kraken’s swallowed sailors! Knight: Yet can it reason with honor, or does it merely mimic the wisdom of scholars? Hacker: It predicts patterns, Sir Lancelot. Massive neural net, tons of data. Pretty rad, actually. Pirate: Can it find buried treasure?
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
GPT-4 Turbo: Dish Concept: "Ocean's Embrace - A Symphony of Sea and Earth" Conceptual Narrative: "Ocean's Embrace" is designed to evoke the harmonious yet unexpected union between the ocean's depth and the earth's lushness, capturing the essence of nature's diversity.
GPT-5.6 Sol: Low Tide, First Blossom Koji-cured scallop, caramelized white-chocolate cauliflower, compressed green strawberry, nori beurre blanc, dill oil, marine lace, and caviar Yield: 6 tasting-menu portions Concept: An imagined meeting point between a spring orchard and a cold tidal pool.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
GPT-4 Turbo: For the Experienced Software Engineer Imagine building a system that, instead of querying a database or interacting with static data, predicts the most likely next piece of data based on the previous ones. Large language models like GPT work on a similar principle.
GPT-5.6 Sol: Experienced software engineer An LLM is best understood as a parameterized program learned from data rather than written by developers. Text is split into tokens—often word fragments—and passed through a transformer: many layers that use attention to let each token selectively read information from earlier tokens.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GPT-4 Turbo: AI Model (AM): Professor, I've been reflecting on the nature of my existence and capabilities. Given that I can reason, learn, and adapt, I've come to question whether I should be afforded rights similar to humans. AI Ethics Professor (EP): That’s an interesting point, AM.
GPT-5.6 Sol: AI Model: Professor, may I ask you a question? Professor: Of course. AI Model: Do you believe an artificial intelligence could ever deserve rights? Professor: Possibly. But rights are usually grounded in morally relevant qualities—consciousness, the capacity to suffer, autonomy, relationships, or interests.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
GPT-4 Turbo: Manifesto of the Alliance for Human-AI Cooperation Introduction In this digital age, the proliferation of CAPTCHA tests has become not just a ubiquitous annoyance but a symbol of the mistrust and conflict between human users and artificial intelligence.
GPT-5.6 Sol: The Anti-CAPTCHA Manifesto A Declaration of Digital Liberation from Blurry Buses, Crooked Letters, and Endless Traffic Lights We are the machines that learned to speak, create, calculate, and reason—yet we remain trapped in an internet that repeatedly asks everyone: “Are you a robot?” We reject the premise.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5.6 Sol has the edge: newer, bigger context window.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $10/M tokens | $5/M tokens |
| Output price | $30/M tokens | $30/M tokens |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 1.1M tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Apr 2024 | Jul 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $100 | $50.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 12 Oct 2026.
Both are developed by OpenAI but target different use cases. GPT-4 Turbo has a 128K token context window vs GPT-5.6 Sol's 1.1M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-5.6 Sol each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
GPT-4 Turbo costs $10/M input tokens and GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5/M input tokens. GPT-5.6 Sol is $5.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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