Head to head
vs GPT-5 is legacy.
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No verdict
One cost is measured and the other is stale . The two bases are never ranked against each other, so no verdict is given. Each figure is shown on its own basis below.
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Verified pricing, pass rate and cost per solved task for GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5 Figure GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5 Input $/Mtok $5 $1.25 Output $/Mtok $30 $10 Cached input $/Mtok $0.5 $0.125 Pass rate 100% 88% Cost per solved task $0.0095 measured $0.74 stale Cost per month $2 $148
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Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for GPT-5.6 Sol (measured, $0.0095 per solved task), GPT-5 (stale, $0.74 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.1 $1 $10 $100 $1k $10k $100k TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks GPT-5.6 Sol · MEASURED · $0.0095 per solved task $2 GPT-5.6 Sol MEASURED GPT-5 · STALE · $0.74 per solved task $148 GPT-5 STALE Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for GPT-5.6 Sol (measured, $0.0095 per solved task), GPT-5 (stale, $0.74 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.1 $1 $10 $100 $1k $10k $100k TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks GPT-5.6 Sol · MEASURED · $0.0095 per solved task $2 GPT-5 · STALE · $0.74 per solved task $148 — GPT-5.6 Sol · MEASURED — GPT-5 · STALE Solid measured · dashed modeled · dotted stale. The gap is the verdict.
Solvency Bench (solvency.dev) — first-party measurement · verified 2026-08-21 · prices from each provider's pricing page; measured rows ignore the tier · Methodology · All models at these settings