GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI
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About

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series (previously previewed as Ox Alpha), designed to deliver strong coding, agentic, visual, and knowledge-work performance at relatively low inference cost. It uses 320 billion total parameters with 18 billion active parameters, along with a hybrid architecture that combines sparse and linear attention to reduce the cost of long-context processing. The model supports context lengths of up to one million tokens and was trained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus. GLM-5.3-Flash can reason across text, images, documents, interfaces, dashboards, and other visual information while using that feedback to refine its own outputs. Z.ai reports substantial gains over GLM-5.2 on coding and agentic benchmarks, including DeepSWE and AutomationBench, while approaching higher-cost frontier models on several evaluations.

About

GPT-5.6 Sol is a next-generation OpenAI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, biology analysis, cybersecurity support, and complex knowledge work. It is part of the GPT-5.6 model family alongside Terra and Luna, with Sol positioned as the flagship model for the most demanding tasks. The model introduces a new max reasoning effort for deeper thinking and an ultra mode that uses subagents to accelerate complex work beyond a single-agent approach. GPT-5.6 Sol shows strong performance in command-line coding workflows, long-horizon security tasks, genomics analysis, vulnerability research, debugging, patch development, and defensive testing. OpenAI pairs the model’s stronger capabilities with layered safeguards, real-time misuse classifiers, account-level review, automated red-teaming, and enterprise controls for sensitive workflows. GPT-5.6 Sol helps developers, enterprises, researchers, and security teams complete sophisticated technical work.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers, AI engineers, agent builders, researchers, and organizations that need cost-efficient multimodal reasoning, long-context processing, advanced coding, visual analysis, and autonomous workflow capabilities

Audience

GPT-5.6 Sol is best suited for developers, enterprise teams, AI engineers, researchers, security teams, cyber defenders, software organizations, biotechnology teams, and advanced technical users that need frontier reasoning, coding support, agentic workflows, biology analysis, defensive cybersecurity assistance, API access, Codex integration, and stronger safety controls

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$4 per 1M tokens (input)
$4 input / $20 output per 1M tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • What makes it exciting is that it seems built for the exact workloads developers care about right now: long-horizon coding, complex reasoning, big-context analysis, and agentic workflows. A million-token context window is especially useful if you want to drop in a large repo, long spec, research corpus, or messy project history and have the model reason across it.

Cons

  • I would treat it as something exciting to test, not something to blindly trust with sensitive work. Even the independent Ox Alpha site warns that messages are processed by the upstream model API, so I would keep secrets, private code, and customer data out of it until there is a clearer owner, model card, privacy policy, and production story.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • GPT-5.6 Sol feels like the model I would reach for when the task is actually hard. As a developer, I like that it is built for deeper reasoning, coding, long-horizon planning, and agentic workflows instead of just quick prompt-and-response work. It is especially appealing for complex debugging, multi-step code changes, research-heavy engineering tasks, and agents that need to coordinate tools without losing the plot. The fact that OpenAI is positioning Sol as the most capable model in the GPT-5.6 family makes sense, because this is the one I would want for serious engineering work.

Cons

  • The main downside is that Sol is the premium option, so I would not use it for every single task. OpenAI lists Sol at a higher token price than Terra or Luna, which means developers will still need to be smart about routing simple jobs to cheaper models.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2019
China
z.ai

Company Information

OpenAI
Founded: 2015
United States
openai.com

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Categories

Categories

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Integrations

Cheaper Inference
Hermes Agent
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Augment Code
Brokk
Charlie
ChatGPT Agent
Devin
Doraverse
GPT-5.5-Cyber
Kotlin
LaunchLemonade
Lovable
Microsoft Teams
Oh My OpenAgent
Z.ai
ZeroHuman
ZooClaw
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