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7/10/2026

The original headline is: "GPT-5.6 Sol matches Claude Fable 5 intelligence at one third the cost"
Original: GPT-5.6 Sol matches Claude Fable 5 intelligence at one third the cost
Short summary
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) launches with Sol matching Claude Fable 5's intelligence at roughly one-third the cost. Sol leads the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index at 80 and uses fewer output tokens than competitors. The family introduces cache-write pricing at 1.25× base input cost, mirroring Anthropic's model — a cost factor for agents with long shared contexts.
- •GPT-5.6 Sol matches Claude Fable 5 intelligence at ~1/3 the cost
- •Sol leads coding agent benchmarks at 80 on the AA Coding Agent Index
- •New cache-write pricing at 1.25× input cost impacts long-context agent budgets
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