GPT-4 Turbo Preview vs GPT-6 Astra

Wins 0 of 4 benchmarks
$1.54 / task
Wins 0 of 4 benchmarks
GPT-4 Turbo Preview—
GPT-6 Astra52.7
GPT-4 Turbo Preview—
GPT-6 Astra49.5
GPT-4 Turbo Preview—
GPT-6 Astra64.6
GPT-4 Turbo Preview—
GPT-6 Astra85.1

Specs

SpecGPT-4 Turbo PreviewGPT-6 Astra
Input, per 1M—$10
Output, per 1M—$50
Cost per task?—$1.54
Speed, tok/s—59
Context—1.05M
WeightsNot verifiedClosed
Released—Sep 2026
See images?✓
Read PDFs?Partial
Hear audio?—
Watch video?—
Call tools?✓
Force a tool call?Partial
Return strict JSON?✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer?✓

What breaks when you switch

GPT-4 Turbo Preview → GPT-6 Astra
Monitoring can return HTTP 403›

Misalignment monitoring can return HTTP 403 before streaming or errors after output; match misalignment_policy_violation and handle stream errors.

No none reasoning effort›

The none reasoning effort is unsupported on GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol; use low instead.

Remove unsupported sampling parameters›

When reasoning effort is not none, remove temperature, top_p and top_logprobs, plus Chat Completions logprobs or Responses output logprobs inclusion.

GPT-6 Astra → GPT-4 Turbo Preview
Context: not verified