GPT-6.1 Sol (High) vs GPT-6 Sol (Max)

Which is better for the money: GPT-6.1 Sol (High) by OpenAI or GPT-6 Sol (Max) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 50.20
Total cost: $521

OpenAIGPT-6 Sol (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 47.60
Total cost: $1536

Verdict

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (High)

GPT-6 Sol (Max) vs GPT-6.1 Sol (High): 5.2% less intelligence, 194.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 106.5% slower end-to-end.

Metric	GPT-6.1 Sol (High)	GPT-6 Sol (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	50.2	47.6	−5.2% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 5.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$521.32	$1,535.80	+194.6% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 2.9× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	45.58s	94.10s	+106.5% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 106.5% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
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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