Celeris-1 vs GPT-6 Sol (Max)

Which is better for the money: Celeris-1 by Celeris or GPT-6 Sol (Max) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

CelerisCeleris-1Off the frontier

Intelligence: 6.30
Total cost: $60.0

OpenAIGPT-6 Sol (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 47.60
Total cost: $1536

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6 Sol (Max) scores 41.3 points higher (47.6 vs 6.3) but costs 26× as much to run the benchmark ($1536 vs $60.0; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick GPT-6 Sol (Max) when you need intelligence above 6.3, and Celeris-1 when 6.3 is enough.

Metric	Celeris-1	GPT-6 Sol (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.3	47.6	+655.6% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 7.6× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$59.99	$1,535.80	+2460.1% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 26× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	0.87s	87.14s	+9916.1% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 9916.1% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.20 / $0.70	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

GPT-6 Sol (Max) vs Celeris-1: 655.6% more intelligence, 2460.1% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 9916.1% 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 Sol (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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