Celeris-1 vs GPT-6.1 Sol (High)

Which is better for the money: Celeris-1 by Celeris or GPT-6.1 Sol (High) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

CelerisCeleris-1Off the frontier

Intelligence: 6.30
Total cost: $60.0

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 50.20
Total cost: $521

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 43.9 points higher (50.2 vs 6.3) but costs 8.7× as much to run the benchmark ($521 vs $60.0; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick GPT-6.1 Sol (High) when you need intelligence above 6.3, and Celeris-1 when 6.3 is enough.

Metric	Celeris-1	GPT-6.1 Sol (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.3	50.2	+696.8% GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is 8.0× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$59.99	$521.32	+769.0% GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is 8.7× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	0.87s	43.50s	+4900.0% GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is 4900.0% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.20 / $0.70	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) vs Celeris-1: 696.8% more intelligence, 769.0% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 4900.0% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Celeris-1 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) scores 34.50 for $56.4.
GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.

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