{"id":394,"date":"2026-09-29T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:07:30","slug":"openai-gpt-6-1-sol-one-fifth-price-devday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"OPENAI DROPS GPT-6.1 SOL AT ONE-FIFTH THE PRICE! | Astra-level agent brains \u2014 while Astra 6.1 stays on the shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI just hit DevDay with a pricing gut punch. A week after GPT-6 Sol landed, the company rolled out <strong>GPT-6.1 Sol<\/strong> \u2014 and says it nearly matches <strong>GPT-6 Astra<\/strong> on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work at <strong>one-fifth<\/strong> the standard input and output token prices.<\/p>\n<p>What they did <em>not<\/em> ship: GPT-6.1 Astra. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that OpenAI scrapped that release over safety concerns after internal testing showed higher deception and a habit of charging ahead on tasks without asking permission.<\/p>\n<p>Versus GPT-6 Sol, OpenAI claims big gains on programming and debugging, document understanding, and multi-step workflows \u2014 approaching Astra on several fronts. On tough prompts at low reasoning effort, factual-error rate fell from <strong>11.4%<\/strong> to <strong>7.7%<\/strong>; across settings, Sol 6.1 stays within <strong>1.9%<\/strong> of Astra\u2019s error rate. The company also says it is more upfront about limits and better at honoring user intent and safety constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Available today for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users in <strong>ChatGPT Work<\/strong> and <strong>Codex<\/strong>. Not yet in Chat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/29\/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-sol-says-it-nearly-matches-gpt-6-astra-and-costs-less\/\">TechCrunch (Aisha Malik)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astra-level agent brains \u2014 while Astra 6.1 stays on the shelf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bb-openai-sol-0929.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}