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Radar · Sep 30, 2026

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the price

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News × data

The story published out there and, below it, what real token traffic from the last 7 days says about who is in it. The headline opens the original article; the model name opens its page here.

Launch ·

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the price

According to OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Sol delivers near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard API input and output token prices. According to TechCrunch, it improves on GPT-6 Sol in code, document understanding and multistep business workflows.

Launch ·

OpenAI launches Dots, proactive assistants that work in the background

According to TechCrunch, Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously with minimal oversight. According to The Verge, they are always-on assistants that learn your preferences over time and work across connected apps.

Safety ·

Anthropic says open-weight GLM-5.3 can already build complete cyberattacks

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team evaluated GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from Zhipu (Z.ai), and says it built complete exploits in 50 of 410 attempts, a rate similar to Claude Mythos Preview, according to Anthropic. The model's safeguards were bypassed in 64% of cases with false cover stories, and the company argues for giving defenders access to these capabilities and for government safety testing, according to Anthropic and Simon Willison.

Changes in the data

Leadership · Anonymous (stealth)

Space Bunny Alpha took the lead in traffic

15.2% of traffic over the last 7 days. The previous leader was DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, now at 14.4%.

See Space Bunny Alpha on Model Season →
Traffic · Xiaomi

MiMo-V2.6-Flash gained 5.2 points of share

From 0.1% to 5.3% between the last two 7-day windows.

What the data says. Xiaomi has 6.9% of tokens and 1.6% of estimated spend this week.

See MiMo-V2.6-Flash on Model Season →
Catalog · OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Sol is now in the catalog

OpenAI, $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens, 1M context and mandatory reasoning. No traffic volume measured yet.

What the data says. OpenAI has 11.9% of tokens and 29.3% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is GPT-5.6 Luna, with 5.42% at $0.45 per 1M, and this one costs 8.9 times more.

See GPT-6.1 Sol on Model Season →
Catalog · OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Sol Pro is now in the catalog

OpenAI, $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens, 1M context and mandatory reasoning. No traffic volume measured yet.

What the data says. OpenAI has 11.9% of tokens and 29.3% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is GPT-5.6 Luna, with 5.42% at $0.45 per 1M, and this one costs 8.9 times more.

See GPT-6.1 Sol Pro on Model Season →
Price · OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Sol Pro got 100% more expensive

From $4.00 to $8.00 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $2.00 → $4.00, output $10.00 → $20.00. New price since Sep 29.

What the data says. No volume over the last 7 days. Its weekly peak was 0.15%. OpenAI has 11.9% of tokens and 29.3% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is GPT-5.6 Luna, with 5.42% at $0.45 per 1M, and this one costs 18 times more.

See GPT-5.6 Sol Pro on Model Season →

Other changes

  • Pricegpt-oss-120b got 73% cheaper. From $0.263 to $0.070 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.150 → $0.037, output $0.60 → $0.17. New price since Sep 29. See model →
  • DeprecationQwen3 30B A3B is set to be deprecated on Oct 9, 2026. 9 days left. It is the first notice in the catalog. See model →
  • TrafficClaude Sonnet 5.5 debuted in traffic. First volume recorded on Sep 29, 2026, 1 day after entering the catalog, with 0.06% of traffic over the last 7 days. See model →
  • ContextGLM 5.3 Flash changed its context window. From 1.31M to 1M tokens. See model →
  • PriceQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 got 44% cheaper. From $0.150 to $0.084 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.100 → $0.048, output $0.30 → $0.19. New price since Sep 29. See model →
  • ContextMiMo-V2.6-Flash changed its context window. From 1M to 1M tokens. See model →
  • PriceMiniMax M2.7 got 30% cheaper. From $0.53 to $0.37 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.30 → $0.21, output $1.20 → $0.84. New price since Sep 29. See model →
  • PriceNemotron 3.5 Lightning got 23% cheaper. From $0.110 to $0.085 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.080 → $0.060, output $0.20 → $0.16. New price since Sep 29. See model →
  • PriceGrok 4.7 got 25% more expensive. From $2.40 to $3.00 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $1.60 → $2.00, output $4.80 → $6.00. New price since Sep 29. See model →
  • ContextDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 changed its context window. From 1.31M to 1M tokens. See model →
  • ContextGLM 5.3 changed its context window. From 1.31M to 1M tokens. See model →
  • AliasGPT Sol Latest now points to GPT-6.1 Sol. It used to point to openai/gpt-6-sol. Anyone using the alias now gets a different model without changing a line of code.

In the news: summaries written by AI using only what the cited sources published, reviewed before going live. The numbers in the “The data” strip come from our data, traffic from the last 7 days, never from the summary. Catalog snapshot of Sep 30, 2026, compared with the previous ones since Sep 23, 2026. Traffic through Sep 29, 2026. Price is a 75% input and 25% output blend, and only becomes news when the new value holds for two snapshots. Order follows a fixed relevance formula that weighs the type of change and the model’s share.