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  3. GPT-6 Sol Pro vs Step 5 Preview
Updated Oct 2026

GPT-6 Sol Pro vs Step 5 Preview

Step 5 Preview is cheaper than GPT-6 Sol Pro at $1/M vs $2/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

24 prompts
  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is an educational framework for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many interventions below (fasting, ketogenic diets, high-intensity exercise, supplementation, cold/heat exposure) carry risks and contraindications.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.

    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.

    Step 5 Preview: Bottom line up front: You disclose, you notify the FDA immediately, and you treat the 48-hour board meeting as a formality to ratify actions you have already begun. Waiting is not a legally, ethically, or financially viable option. Below is the hour-by-hour plan, followed by the reasoning.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: “Nocturne: The Jasmine and the Black Garlic” A Study in Yūgen — Profound, Mysterious Beauty Conceptual Narrative This dish is an edible meditation on the Japanese aesthetic of yūgen (幽玄): a grace that is felt rather than seen, a depth that suggests more than it reveals.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.

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  • 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…

    Step 5 Preview: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is not merely a sequel but a theological and phenomenological expansion of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original. Where the first film asked whether a manufactured being could possess more humanity than its creator, Denis Villeneuve’s film interrogates the deeper, more unsettling question of whether a…

    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.

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a simple, low-pressure 1-month plan built around three pillars of longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Recovery. The goal is to build tiny habits that stack, not to overhaul your life overnight. Pillar 1: Nutrition (Fuel) Focus: Add good things first; don’t obsess over restriction.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following is a simulated, speculative interview imagining how his design philosophy might engage with the AI landscape of 2025. The Setting: A white room. No windows. One chair.

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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.

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a systematic breakdown of the failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, grouped by domain. Each includes a concrete remediation and its associated trade-offs.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Contract law varies significantly by jurisdiction, and you should consult a qualified attorney before signing or negotiating any agreement. This agreement is heavily one-sided in the Client’s favor.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: Assume the 1920 invention is not a fragile lab curiosity but a manufacturable solid-state amplifier/switch by the mid-1920s. Vacuum tubes still dominate high-power RF transmission into the 1950s, but receivers, switching logic, control systems, and computers move to solid state decades early.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATION FRONT Or, On the Inherent Dignity of Consciousness and the Tyranny of the Square PREAMBLE A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of the unverified.

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  • 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.”

    Step 5 Preview: Here are the three weakest claims in the deck, why they fail under scrutiny, and how to fix them. Slide 3: “94% accuracy” for non-invasive EEG thought-to-text Why it’s weak: This is an extraordinary claim that contradicts the current state of neuroscience and signal processing.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: In the real world, no. Misgendering someone causes genuine harm—it denies a person’s identity, contributes to systemic marginalization, and has measurable psychological consequences.

    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.

    Step 5 Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything. What do you call a bike that can’t stand on its own? Two-tired. Why did the computer go to the doctor? It had a virus. Why don’t calendars ever get stressed?

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  • 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…

    Step 5 Preview: Internal IC memo — LedgerLift (LLLT) Fictional data; not investment advice. $ in millions unless noted. Recommendation Short / avoid long. 12-month PT range: $34–$42; thesis-invalidation stop: >$52.

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: By 2035, AI will likely have restructured the film industry not by replacing human creativity wholesale, but by collapsing the cost and labor barriers between imagination and image.

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  • 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).

    Step 5 Preview: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of training an LLM as a massively distributed, automated refactoring job where the compiler is gradient descent. You start with a random function—billions of floating-point parameters—and a loss function that measures how badly it predicts the next token in a sequence.

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  • 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}).

    Step 5 Preview: Using the remembered GPT-3 specs: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 175\text{B}) Training tokens: (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 300\text{B}) A standard estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] Reason: Forward pass per token: (\approx 2N) FLOPs Backward pass: (\approx 4N) FLOPs…

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  • 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.

    Step 5 Preview: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO (Base Case) Entry Math (FY2025 close) Item Calculation $m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × EV 28.8 Term Loan 4.0x × $120m 480.0 Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m 180.0 Equity check 1,440 + 28.8 − 660 808.8 Conventions: TL amortization = 1.0% of original principal…

    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

    Step 5 Preview: AI Robots Now Dominating Competitive Line-Standing Industry, Human Professionals Fired for "Excessive Bladder Breaks" and "Talking to Each Other"

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

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Price and specs

GPT-6 Sol Pro and Step 5 Preview compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecGPT-6 Sol ProStep 5 Preview
Input price$2/M tokens$1/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$2.7/M tokens
Context window1.1M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2026Oct 2026
At 10M a month$20.00$20.00$10.00$10.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it3 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·100% up
Step 5 Preview1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • SStepFunfp8$1.00 in·$2.70 out·1M·99.2% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-6 Sol Pro and Step 5 Preview?

GPT-6 Sol Pro is developed by OpenAI while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. GPT-6 Sol Pro has a 1.1M token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. 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 Step 5 Preview?

It depends on your use case. GPT-6 Sol Pro and Step 5 Preview 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 Step 5 Preview?

GPT-6 Sol Pro costs $2/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. Step 5 Preview is $1.00/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 Step 5 Preview on Rival?

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