OpenAI · Released Sep 4, 2026

GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end work. It is suited for advanced analysis, software engineering, deep research, scientific work, and document creation, with particular strengths in long-horizon...

ReasoningVision
  • #1OTIS Mock AIME
  • #1Vending-Bench 2
  • Top 2%GPQA Diamond
  • #1ARC-AGI-2
Released
Sep 4 2026
Context window
1.05M 128K out
Input / 1M tokens
$10.00 from $5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$50.00 from $25.00

Where to run it

36 providers compared

Included in GitLab Duo. Cheapest: OpenAI at $5.00 / $25.00 per 1M input / output tokens — 92% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
GitLab Duosubscription plan Plan Plan Plan1.05M128K— Plan
OpenAI $5.00 $25.00 $0.501.05M128K100%24h Cheapest
Azure $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K100%24h +100%
OpenAI $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K99.8%24h +100%
NanoGPT $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Cloudflare AI Gateway $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Venice AI $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Kilo Gateway $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Vercel AI Gateway $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
LLM Gateway $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Requesty $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
AIHubMix $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
302.AI $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
DigitalOcean $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
ZenMux $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
GitHub Copilot $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Perplexity Agent $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Aixy $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Prime Inference $10.00 $50.00 —1.05M128K— +100%
Neon $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Azure Cognitive Services $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Vivgrid $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
CrossModel $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
DevPass (LLM Gateway) $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M1.05M— +100%
CommandCode $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Merge Gateway $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Ofox $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
LowRouter $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
OpenCode $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
NEAR AI Cloud $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Eden AI $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Opper $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M128K— +100%
Standard Compute $10.00 $50.00 $1.001.05M50K— +100%
Amazon Bedrockus-west-2 $11.00 $55.00 $1.101.05M128K100%24h +120%
Azureus $11.00 $55.00 $1.101.05M128K— +120%
Cortecs $12.27 $61.36 $1.231.05M128K— +145%
Infer by Flow7 $12.50 $62.50 $1.25272K128K— +150%
AI/ML API $13.00 $65.00 $1.301.05M128K— +160%
OpenAIfast $20.00 $100.00 $2.001.05M128K100%24h +300%
OpenAIultrafast $60.00 $300.00 $6.001.05M128K100%24h +1100%

Value

Price vs. performance

1 model scores higher for the same price or lesson GPQA Diamond, e.g. Gemini 4 Argon.
23.2%47.6%72.0%96.4% $0.001$0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.15/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 96.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) — 89.6% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 4 (Mistral) — 88.1% · $1.36/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 95.6% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 90.6% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 95.4% · $0.82/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 90.1% · $0.005/1M in GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) — 90.9% · $0.079/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 94.8% · $0.75/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.66/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 94.0% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.044/1M in Qwen3.7 Flash (Qwen) — 82.3% · $0.03/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 93.9% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 94.1% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 83.3% · $0.30/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 93.1% · $0.24/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 93.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $2.00/1M in GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) — 91.9% · $0.034/1M in Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) — 87.9% · $0.67/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 85.9% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Plus (Qwen) — 87.9% · $0.32/1M in MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — 90.9% · $0.30/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 91.0% · $5.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) — 90.9% · $1.48/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 92.8% · $1.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 88.8% · $1.25/1M in Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.6 Flash (Qwen) — 83.3% · $0.19/1M in Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.10/1M in Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen) — 85.9% · $0.25/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.44/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.091/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 90.8% · $0.65/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 90.1% · $5.00/1M in GLM 5.1 (Z.ai) — 89.9% · $1.40/1M in Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 73.2% · $0.09/1M in Gemma 4 31B (Google) — 75.8% · $0.20/1M in Qwen3.6 Plus (Qwen) — 88.4% · $0.33/1M in Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) — 47.5% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 79.0% · $0.08/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Qwen) — 83.5% · $0.14/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 94.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 87.4% · $3.00/1M in Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) — 86.4% · $0.50/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 87.8% · $1.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $5.00/1M in GLM 4.7 Flash (Z.ai) — 60.5% · $0.061/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 83.3% · $0.54/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 89.4% · $0.50/1M in Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) — 27.2% · $0.15/1M in Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral) — 25.3% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 3 2512 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $0.50/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 86.1% · $5.00/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 71.2% · $1.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 82.3% · $3.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 77.3% · $15.00/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 55.6% · $0.09/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (Qwen) — 80.0% · $0.45/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 70.7% · $0.09/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 76.3% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) — 61.7% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 14B (Qwen) — 63.8% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 32B (Qwen) — 65.7% · $0.08/1M in Gemma 3 4B (Google) — 23.2% · $0.04/1M in Gemma 3 12B (Google) — 39.5% · $0.05/1M in Gemma 3 27B (Google) — 47.7% · $0.08/1M in Qwen-Plus (Qwen) — 48.1% · $0.26/1M in Phi 4 (Microsoft) — 56.1% · $0.07/1M in DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek) — 71.2% · $0.26/1M in Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — 47.4% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 2407 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in Llama 3.2 1B Instruct (Meta) — 23.9% · $0.027/1M in Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta) — 44.2% · $0.40/1M in Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta) — 27.0% · $0.05/1M in Gemma 2 27B (Google) — 36.5% · $0.65/1M in Mistral Large (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 95.4% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 90.5% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 94.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 91.6% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 93.5% · $4.00/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 90.7% · $5.00/1M in GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) — 78.5% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.4 Mini (OpenAI) — 86.9% · $0.75/1M in GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI) — 94.6% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.50/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 91.4% · $1.75/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 87.6% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 86.2% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 75.0% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 69.4% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 75.8% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 60.8% · $0.018/1M in o3 (OpenAI) — 81.8% · $2.00/1M in o4 Mini (OpenAI) — 79.6% · $1.10/1M in GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — 66.9% · $2.00/1M in GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) — 65.8% · $0.40/1M in GPT-4.1 Nano (OpenAI) — 48.9% · $0.10/1M in o3 Mini (OpenAI) — 77.0% · $1.10/1M in o1 (OpenAI) — 76.8% · $15.00/1M in GPT-4o (2024-11-20) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o (2024-08-06) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in GPT-4o (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o (2024-05-13) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $5.00/1M in GPT-4 Turbo (OpenAI) — 46.6% · $10.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $1.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $0.50/1M in GPT-4 (OpenAI) — 35.7% · $30.00/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 95.8% · $10.00/1M in GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra Other OpenAI Other labs Value frontier · GPQA Diamond vs. input price per 1M tokens (log scale) · Drag to pan, pinch or Ctrl + scroll to zoom, double-click to zoom in.

Benchmarks

26 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
FrontierSWESoftware engineering · Ultra-long-horizon engineering tasks with a 20-hour budget each 65.5% #1of 19 This model
DeepSWESoftware engineering · Original long-horizon tasks across active open-source repos 74.1% #1of 26 This model
FrontierCodeSoftware engineering · Mergeable fixes for hard open-source issues 53.3% #4of 41 Claude Opus 5.554.6%
MirrorCodeSoftware engineering · Reimplement whole programs end-to-end without the source 46.7% #5of 10 Claude Opus 5.577.4%
GSOSoftware engineering · Optimize real code to make it significantly faster 79.4% #2of 27 Claude Fable 5.188.2%
SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences 56.5% #20of 102 Claude Opus 5.566.9%
WeirdML v3Software engineering · Unfamiliar ML and data tasks with vague goals 42.2% #1of 22 This model
APEX-AgentsAgents & computer use · Long professional tasks in banking, consulting and law 64.7% #8of 51 Gemini 4 Argon82.4%
Remote Labor IndexAgents & computer use · Real paid freelance projects done end-to-end 20.8% #2of 13 Claude Opus 5.521.3%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $15,515 #1of 61 This model
GDP.pdfWriting & content · Answer questions about real professional PDFs 34.2% #2of 38 GPT-6.1 Sol35.0%
SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions 75.6% #2of 79 Gemini 4 Argon76.0%
WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) 1800 #2of 90 Claude Opus 5.51820
Blueprint-Bench 2Design & visual · Turn apartment photos into 2D floor plans 49.7% #3of 32 Gemini 4 Argon54.4%
Furniture AssemblyDesign & visual · Spot mistakes in photos of IKEA builds 80.0% #2of 34 Claude Opus 5.583.3%
GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions 95.8% #2of 122 Gemini 4 Argon96.4%
Humanity's Last ExamReasoning & knowledge · Expert questions across 100+ subjects 54.8% #1of 32 This model
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles 95.0% #1of 75 This model
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples 98.5% #1of 75 Gemini 4 Argon98.5%
CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems 31.7% #2of 111 GPT-5.6 Sol32.3%
Chess PuzzlesReasoning & knowledge · Find the single best move in 100 new puzzles 76.0% #1of 83 This model
LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts 64.4% #5of 123 Claude Sonnet 5.568.3%
FrontierMathMaths · Expert-written problems, undergrad to early research (tiers 1–3) 93.7% #1of 87 GPT-6.1 Sol93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4Maths · Exceptionally hard research-level problems 97.6% #2of 64 GPT-6.1 Sol100.0%
ProofBenchMaths · Graduate maths proofs verified in Lean 4 99.0% #4of 70 Claude Sonnet 5.5100.0%
OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 100.0% #1of 120 Gemini 4 Argon100.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
openai/gpt-6-astra
Developer
OpenAI
Release date
Sep 4, 2026 ·
Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
API price
$10.00 / $50.00 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
36
Input types
file, image, text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
No
Free tier
No

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