GPT-6 Astra

Sep 2026
GPT-6 Astra
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$3.26per task?
$10 / $50per 1M in / outcache $1
69 tok/sfirst token in 4 min?
1.05Mcontext

Rankingat max effort?

Alternatives?

Benchmarks

all categories
Chat & Knowledge
MLCR-AA35#13
AA Cyber Index successeslab33
HealthBench Professional length-adjustedlab70.3
HealthBench length-adjustedlab58.3
HealthBench Hard length-adjustedlab36.6
HealthBench Consensus length-adjustedlab95.5
Coding
SciCode56.5#21
SciCode Verified pass@1 n=6lab94.2
MultiLangBenchlab87.4
COBOL migration evallab86.3
Agents & Tool Use
Harvey LAB-AA 1.18.6#5
EBR Bench76.2#1
SpireClimb25.7#1
SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart16.7#2
SpireClimb StS2 A1034.7#1
Finance Agent v2lab53.5
Harvey Legal Agent Benchmarklab5.4
Finch FinWorkBenchlab57
Writing & Language
Vision & Documents
Dense200 bounding-box detectionlab41.5
ChartQA Prolab65.1

Watch out 3

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. Source ↗

No none reasoning effort›

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

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. Source ↗

FAQ

How much does GPT-6 Astra cost?›

$10 per 1M input tokens and $50 per 1M output tokens; cached input $1 per 1M. A typical benchmark task costs about $3.26 at max effort.

Is GPT-6 Astra free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $10 per 1M input tokens.

How good is GPT-6 Astra, and what is it best at?›

#7 of 334 in Chat & Knowledge, #3 of 132 in Coding, #6 of 133 in Agents & Tool Use, #26 of 195 in Writing & Language, #2 of 124 in Vision & Documents. Strongest at: Coding, Agents & work tasks, Reasoning, Science, Long context, Knowledge, Vision.

Is GPT-6 Astra better than GPT-5.5?›

On Arena Text · creative writing, GPT-6 Astra scores 1,450 vs 1,451 — about the same. It is 111% more expensive per task.

How can I use GPT-6 Astra?›

Through the API of Amazon Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI.

What is the context window of GPT-6 Astra?›

1.05M tokens, with up to 128K output tokens.

When was GPT-6 Astra released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-09-04. It is the current version in its line.

Is GPT-6 Astra open source?›

No, GPT-6 Astra is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is Kimi K3.

Can GPT-6 Astra read images?›

It accepts text and images, PDF files as input.

What is GPT-6 Astra?›

GPT-6 Astra is a closed language model from OpenAI, released Sep 2026.

What are the best alternatives to GPT-6 Astra?›

Claude Opus 5.5 (cheaper), GPT-5.6 Sol (better), Kimi K3 (open weights).