I don't understand the constant bashing of GPT 6/6.1 Sol's performance relative to 5.6 and Astra. Why are we ignoring the elephant in the room, the absurd price + efficiency gains? It costs half as much as Sonnet 5.5, 1/3rd of 5.6 Sol, 1/5th of Opus 5.5, and 1.7th of Astra.
A discussion on reddit.com questions the criticism of GPT 6/6.1 Sol's performance compared to 5.6 and Astra, highlighting significant price and efficiency gains. The user points out that GPT 6/6.1 Sol costs half as much as Sonnet 5.5, one-third of 5.6 Sol, one-fifth of Opus 5.5, and 1.7 times less than Astra, suggesting these cost benefits are being overlooked.
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Call me crazy, but even if its benchmaxed and worse than Sol 5.6, Opus 5.5 or Astra, I don't get why that would matter being THAT cheap with absurd intelligence per dollar.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons?compare=gpt-5-6-sol-medium%2Cgpt-6-astra-medium%2Cgpt-6-1-sol-medium%2Cclaude-opus-5-5-medium%2Cclaude-sonnet-5-5-medium