Cost per task
#23 cheapest of 41$0.27at max
OpenAI · released 2026-09-03
Measured on 244 benchmarks across 5 reasoning efforts.
56.9
#3 of 61 models · best at max
Bars show where GPT-6 Astra sits among the 61 ranked models on each benchmark (right is best); the tick is the field median.
$0.27at max
12 minat max
71 tok/sat max
6.1 minat max
52kat max
$1.425 per 1M tokens at API prices$0.061 on ChatGPT Pro 10x
97.0% cache read · 2.61% fresh input · 0.05% cache write · 0.38% output
Measured from T3 Code usage in Codex, Oct 27 to Nov 2, high confidence. One app’s users, not everyone’s. $1.470 at the standard 97 / 2.5 / 0.5 mix.
agentic
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 77.8%
agentic
Leader: Sonnet 5.5 · 1814
reasoning
Leader: this model · 71.5%
coding
Leader: Opus 5.5 · 46.4%
economics
Leader: Muse Wonder Full · 32.6%
reasoning
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 69.1%
knowledge
Leader: Fable 5.1 · 68.4%
knowledge
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 95.8%
reasoning
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 64.8%
coding
Leader: Kimi K3.1 · 67.2%