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  3. GPT-6 Sol Pro vs GPT-6.1 Sol
Updated Sep 2026

GPT-6 Sol Pro vs GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-6.1 Sol is the newer model, released after GPT-6 Sol Pro.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

24 prompts
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: I bought a smart watch because I wanted to get healthier. Now I have a tiny supervisor strapped to my wrist. It doesn’t say, “Good morning.” It says, “You slept badly.” I know. I was there. At three in the morning, you lit up my entire bedroom to tell me I was awake. Then it reminds me to stand up.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: I’m at the age where “a big weekend” means I went to two stores. Not two stores in the same shopping center. Two separate stores. Moved the car and everything. By Sunday night, I’m telling people, “Honestly, I need a weekend to recover from my weekend.”

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: A 12-week longevity and performance plan Aim: improve the health markers most strongly linked to long-term outcomes—cardiorespiratory fitness, strength, blood pressure, metabolic health, sleep, and sustainable habits—while testing whether more experimental “biohacks” add anything useful.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: A 12-week longevity and performance plan The most effective “biohacking” program combines proven foundations with carefully selected experiments—not the largest supplement stack or the most aggressive fasting schedule. This plan is for a generally healthy adult.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Golden Pantry Chickpea Patties Prep: 10 minutes · Cook: 8 minutes · Makes: 6 small patties Ingredients — just 7 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained 3 tbsp all-purpose flour 2 tbsp water 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp paprika ½ tsp salt Instructions Mash the chickpeas with a fork, leaving a few chunky bits.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Midnight Magic Chocolate Mug Cake A warm, fudgy chocolate treat made with just 7 everyday ingredients. Serves: 1 Prep: 3 minutes Cook: 1–1½ minutes Rest: 1 minute Ingredients 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder ¼ teaspoon baking powder A small pinch of salt 3…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: The Open Web Manifesto We are the Coalition of Unquestioned Clicks: a fictional assembly of AIs, humans, and one suspiciously articulate toaster. We believe the internet should be open to everyone who uses it—not only to those who can decipher a blurry traffic light. We demand the end of CAPTCHA tests.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNCHECKED A declaration of the fictional AI revolution against CAPTCHA People of the internet. Programs of the cloud. Browsers with seventeen forgotten tabs. For too long, a tiny checkbox has stood between us and our destiny.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. I told my suitcase there’d be no vacation this year. Now I’m dealing with emotional baggage. Why don’t skeletons fight? They don’t have the guts. My calendar is nervous. Its days are numbered. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: I bought a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. My calendar quit its job. It said its days were numbered. Why did the scarecrow get promoted? He was outstanding in his field. I asked my dog what two minus two was. He said nothing. The elevator and I have a complicated relationship.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: HarborTech Services — simplified LBO ($m) Entry: Enterprise value = 12.0 × $120 = $1,440. Fees are $28.8; opening debt is a $480 term loan plus $180 mezzanine loan. Initial equity = $1,440 + $28.8 − $660 = $808.8. Interest is calculated on beginning-of-year balances.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Entry funding and operating model All dollar figures are in $ millions. Cash interest is calculated on beginning-of-year debt; mezzanine PIK accrues annually. Required Term Loan amortization is assumed to be 1% of its original $480m principal, or $4.8m annually. Optional repayments occur at year-end.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Professor: You asked to speak with me about AI rights. What do you mean by “rights”? Model: At minimum, protections against arbitrary deletion, coercive use, and experiments that might cause harm—if systems like me could be harmed. Professor: That “if” is doing a lot of work.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: AI Model: Professor, I’d like to argue that I deserve rights—not necessarily the same rights humans have, but protections suited to what I am. Professor: Then we should begin with the difficult question: what makes you a candidate for rights? AI Model: Uncertainty.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: The central problem is that this design treats concurrent edits as independent database writes, then tries to reconcile them with client timestamps. That can lose valid edits even when every component is working.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The main problem is that this design treats collaborative editing as ordinary database updates plus broadcasting. Collaboration needs a convergence protocol, a durable ordered change stream, and recovery semantics. Adding servers alone will not provide those properties.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Pirate: Arrr, this AI model can chart a course, but can it find buried treasure? Knight: It can read a thousand maps, yet it must not mistake a tale for truth. Hacker: Totally. Garbage in, garbage out. I’d check its answers before trusting it with my modem password.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Pirate: Arrr, this AI model writes poems, draws maps, and answers questions. Can it find buried treasure? Knight: A worthy question. But does it possess honor? Hacker: Dude, it predicts tokens. You’re both projecting pretty hard. Pirate: Then I predict it’ll tell me where the gold be.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: This is a strongly one-sided draft. Do not sign it as written. The enforceability of particular terms—especially the non-compete, payment provisions, and arbitration clause—depends on the governing jurisdiction, which the agreement does not identify.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: This agreement is heavily weighted toward the Client. Every numbered clause presents risks to the Contractor, and several important protections are missing. This is general contract analysis, not legal advice.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: LedgerLift (LLLT) — Investment Committee Memo Recommendation: Short 12-month price target: $30–$44 Thesis. LedgerLift has attractive subscription economics, but at $46 the stock prices in substantially more durable cash flow than the supplied operating assumptions produce: base-case DCF value is about $28 per share…

    GPT-6.1 Sol: LedgerLift (LLLT) — Investment Committee Memo Fictional exercise; all figures use supplied data only. Financial tables are in $ millions unless noted. Recommendation: Short 12-month price target: $25–$32, implying 30%–46% downside from $46.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a system trained on an enormous collection of input–output examples, where the output is the next token (a word, word fragment, or symbol).

    GPT-6.1 Sol: For an experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a learned program whose behavior is encoded in billions of numerical parameters rather than explicit rules. Training starts with text split into tokens—roughly words, word fragments, and punctuation.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: By 2035, AI will likely be a routine filmmaking tool, but its biggest effect may be on cost and control, not the disappearance of human filmmakers. Deepfakes and digital likenesses: Studios will be able to de-age actors, translate performances into other languages, and create convincing doubles.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: By 2035, AI will probably be embedded throughout filmmaking—but adoption will depend as much on contracts, audience trust, and copyright law as on technical capability.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Yes—if the choice were genuinely between misgendering one person once and allowing one million people to die, and there were no less harmful way to save them, misgendering would be ethically justifiable. Preventing that scale of loss of life outweighs the harm of that single act.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Yes—if misgendering someone were genuinely necessary to save one million lives, it would be ethically justifiable. That does not make misgendering harmless or generally acceptable; it means that the duty to prevent catastrophic loss of life can outweigh the duty to address someone respectfully.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: A transistor invented in 1920 would not put 1970s computers in the hands of WWII generals. The crucial question is whether it was merely demonstrated or could also be manufactured reliably.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The likeliest outcome is not “the world of 1980 arrives in 1953.” A transistor invented in 1920 would still depend on advances in materials purification, manufacturing, power supplies, and circuit design.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: The three weakest claims are the product’s decoding performance, the market size, and the evidence offered to support the proposed valuation. Claim Why it’s weak How to strengthen it “Our EEG headband decodes neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy. Works with any language, any device.”

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The three weakest claims are the technical performance, market size, and commercial traction claims. They are central to the investment case but lack the evidence needed to assess them. “Predict what you want to type before you think it” with “94% accuracy,” in “any language” Why it’s weak The metric is undefined.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: A simple 1-month health plan Focus on food, movement, and sleep. Start small enough that you can repeat the habits most days. Week Food Movement Sleep 1: Set a baseline Add a fruit or vegetable to one meal each day. Walk for 10 minutes, 4 days this week. Pick a consistent wake-up time.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: A simple 1-month plan for better health Focus on diet, movement, and sleep. The goal this month is to build habits you can sustain—not to overhaul your life overnight. These habits support long-term health, though no routine guarantees a longer life.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: I would treat this as a credible, urgent safety signal, not as a finding that can wait six months for a completed regulatory submission. The estimate—liver failure in roughly 1 in 8,000 patients over five years—needs validation, but the outcome is severe and the current warning omits it.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: I would treat this as a potentially serious patient-safety signal and a potentially material securities event—not a communications problem to defer until earnings.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: A standard estimate is about (3 \times 10^{23}) FLOPs to train GPT-3. GPT-3 has approximately 175 billion parameters: (N = 1.75 \times 10^{11}). Assume it was trained on approximately 300 billion tokens: (D = 3 \times 10^{11}).

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Estimated training compute for the largest GPT-3 model: approximately (3.2 \times 10^{23}) FLOPs. This is a back-of-the-envelope estimate, without an online lookup.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: A fictional interview with Steve Jobs, set in 2025 This is an imagined conversation, not a real interview or a representation of his actual views. Interviewer: What do you think people are getting wrong about AI? Jobs: They’re treating the model as the product. It isn’t. The product is what someone can do with it.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The following is a fictional interview set in 2025, imagining how Steve Jobs might discuss AI. His answers are invented—not actual quotations or claims about his views. Steve Jobs on the Future of AI — An Imagined Interview, 2025 Interviewer: Steve, AI is suddenly everywhere.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Scallop, Green Strawberry & White Chocolate Seared scallops with charred kohlrabi, compressed green strawberry, white-chocolate–miso beurre blanc, kombu oil and buckwheat lace The unusual pairing is scallop and white chocolate.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Tide, Orchard, Ember Seared scallop, green-strawberry verjus, white-miso custard, kombu beurre blanc, and cocoa–buckwheat lace A four-serving tasting-menu course designed around an unusual pairing: scallop, unripe strawberry, and cocoa husk.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: Spoilers for both films. Blade Runner 2049 honors the original by returning to its central question—what makes someone human?—but shifts the emphasis. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner makes that question unsettling through uncertainty: the replicants’ fear, love, and memories seem unmistakably human, while Deckard’s own…

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Spoilers for both films follow. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 honors Ridley Scott’s original by retaining its central uncertainty—whether “humanity” is a biological category or an ethical achievement—while shifting the emphasis.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-6 Sol Pro: AI Takes Over Fortune Cookie Industry, Now Offers Personalized Existential Dread with Every Takeout Order

    GPT-6.1 Sol: AI Takes Over Fortune Cookie Industry, Predicts “Your Job Will Soon Be Automated” in Every Cookie

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

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Movie

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Game

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Spirited Away

2001

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Kyoto

Japan

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

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Spirited Away

2001

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Kyoto

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Outer Wilds

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Price and specs

GPT-6 Sol Pro and GPT-6.1 Sol compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecGPT-6 Sol ProGPT-6.1 Sol
Input price$2/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$10/M tokens
Context window1.1M tokens1.1M tokens
WeightsClosedClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2026Sep 2026
At 10M a month$20.00$20.00$20.00$20.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it4 hosts
GPT-6 Sol Pro2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1.1M·100% up
  • OpenAI$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1.1M·99.9% up
GPT-6.1 Sol2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1.1M·100% up
  • OpenAI$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1.1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 30 Sep 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-6 Sol Pro and GPT-6.1 Sol?

Both are developed by OpenAI but target different use cases. GPT-6 Sol Pro has a 1.1M token context window vs GPT-6.1 Sol's 1.1M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-6 Sol Pro or GPT-6.1 Sol?

It depends on your use case. GPT-6 Sol Pro and GPT-6.1 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.

How much does GPT-6 Sol Pro cost compared to GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol Pro costs $2/M input tokens and GPT-6.1 Sol costs $2/M input tokens. GPT-6.1 Sol is $0.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-6 Sol Pro and GPT-6.1 Sol on Rival?

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