GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, bringing much of its strengths into faster and more affordable models to support work at scale.
We’ve also made caching and inference more efficient, and we’re passing the savings directly to you: 50% lower API prices for Sol and Luna compared with GPT‑5.6 promotional pricing.
Higher usage limits and lower cost give you more flexibility and room to iterate.
If you like solely AutomationBench and what it measures, I made the gpt-6 models alone easier to read .. which required a few image edit turns to maintain any kind of fidelity in the values, and gpt-5.6-sol was left in, unlabeled.
Interpret it as gpt-6-sol max running its reasoning up to max actually making no headway in the problems and outputting worse for the increased cost.
For the actual vertical score, the models name increases seem to continue well at medium, continuing right where the xhigh or max of the prior size left off.
GPT-6-Luna writes the remaining lines of my song chorus
You’re my cancer cat, through the fight, Your purr is a lantern, still burning bright; You swat at the shadows, pounce on the worry, then zoom like a comet through one more long night, And paw by brave paw, we keep clawing toward light.
GPT-6-Sol names the models that should come below Astra
(and this forum screws up the markdown paste)
**Astra → Stella → Stellula**
The names form a Latin-inspired progression: **Astra** evokes the stars, **Stella** means “star,” and **Stellula** means “little star.”
Good pricing, but when used in orchestration an Astra model is overkill and thinks too much for the role of orchestrator. Wasted 80% getting side tracked. Sol High is decent – but really needs more context window as the deepseek-flash Max as a orchestrator just works.
Sol High Orc → Luna worker → Astra re-worker → Astra Max reviewer seems to work well.
Guys, the new models GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6 Sol and they’re both supposed to be smarter AND CHEAPER than GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Sol. NOT BRINGING THIS TO CHAT IS LITERALLY MORE EXPENSIVE FOR OPENAI AND WORSE FOR THE CONSUMER. THIS IS A LOSE-LOSE.
astra takes a flame thrower to your credits, even luna admits that, and the new image gen is a 100% downgrade. repeats the same image over and over, clean new thread same thing. will acknowledge what your trying to do, and then does the complete opposite of what you and chat were describing, , i swear 5.4 was way better. im convinced these are not new models just small tweaks with a higher price…i hear good things about grok though. wasted my money here. nothing in these last updates make me want to stay
flagged my comment cause it hurt someones feelings? you cant be serious. “only possitive feedback allowed” lmao yup good bye gpt
been playing around with this. reverse orchestration is kinda kicking ass.
SO now Luna Max Orc → Ask Sol 6.1 Max to review and create fix plan → Same Luna Orc implements fix → New Sol 6.1 Max reviews work → Same Luna fixes… when ready to merge commit to candidate Astra Max review tip (with fix plan if it finds an issue) and Luna fixes baed off plan then another astra review. then merge.
Much cheaper too. I use this for post 80% complete work where Im debugging specific issues.
For a new build out I use the a team of teams swarm approach.
(but mainly because of that 50% reduction, though it appears GPT-6-Sol can be faster too)
