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GPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gateway

GPT-6.1 Sol is live on AI Gateway—cheaper cached input and better at reading documents and debugging code. Coding agents like Cursor can use it now.

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Why it matters

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol with lower pricing than GPT-6 Astra and improved document handling. Practitioners can route it through Vercel's AI Gateway for unified API management, cost tracking, and failover—operational efficiency for agent workloads, not a capability breakthrough.

The key facts

9 to know
  1. GPT-6.1 Sol available on AI Gateway as openai/gpt-6.1-sol

  2. Lower standard input/output pricing than GPT-6 Astra

  3. Cheaper cached input pricing for context reuse

  4. Improved coding, document reading (tables/charts), multi-step workflows

  5. Better factual accuracy on difficult questions

  6. Supports Chat Completions API, Responses API, coding agents (Codex, Cursor)

  7. AI Gateway: unified API, cost tracking, retries, failover, no platform inference fee

  8. Zero Data Retention and Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) supported

  9. Model playground available for testing

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Publisher excerpt: from OpenAI is now available on AI Gateway. It improves on GPT-6 Sol for coding, computer use, and professional work, including reading complex documents and carrying out multi-step workflows.GPT-6.1 Sol The model is suited to agents that need to debug code, work through business tasks, or extract…
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