Cost per task
#28 cheapest of 50$0.27at max
OpenAI · released 2026-09-03
Measured on 252 benchmarks across 5 reasoning efforts.
56.9
#3 of 67 models · best at max
Bars show where GPT-6 Astra sits among the 67 ranked models on each benchmark (right is best); the tick is the field median.
$0.27at max
20 minat max
43 tok/sat max
4.0 minat max
52kat max
Time per task: Artificial Analysis · computed, not timed: output tokens per Intelligence Index task divided by output speed, without tool time. Method changed Nov 4, 2026.
API default effort: medium, per Artificial Analysis.
$1.421 per 1M tokens at API prices$0.061 on ChatGPT Pro 10x
97.0% cache read · 2.60% fresh input · 0.04% cache write · 0.37% output
Measured from T3 Code usage in Codex, Oct 30 to Nov 5, 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 · 1813
reasoning
Leader: this model · 72.0%
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%