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GPT-6.1 Sol: Pricing, Benchmarks, Availability, and How It Compares
GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra coding, computer use, and professional-work performance at one-fifth of Astra's token prices. Here is what the numbers do—and do not—mean.
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From these guides to your next workflow
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Route events to the right model tier
Complex meeting prep goes to the frontier tier, routine classification to the budget tier — one consistent behavioral family.
02
Prep, execute, follow up — from your calendar
Agents read the event, pull context, draft the brief, and send the follow-up. No prompt engineering, no app switching.
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Continuous operation at SaaS prices
Budget-tier models make always-on classification viable. Subscribe to a tournament, watch the updates arrive — no budget anxiety.