Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
multimodal LLM

GPT-6 Astra

Flagship of the GPT-6 family for complex reasoning and coding; text and image in, text out, with function calling, web search, file search and computer use. Available via OpenAI API, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot.

OpenAI
Levelmodel
Classmultimodal LLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Context1,050,000
Released3 Sep 2026
Opennessproprietary
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reportedmaintainer-runindependent
ARC-AGI-2knowledge and reasoning
$1.12/taskvendor-reported
95
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

ARC-AGI-3knowledge and reasoning
with OpenAI adapter harness (apiyi citing Latent Space)vendor-reported
99.9
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Conflicting figures across sourcesvendor-reported
98.6
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

direct, about 63 to 66% (apiyi citing Latent Space)vendor-reported
no score in the notes
Arena Text leaderboardhuman preference arena
maxindependent
1,475 ±7
1,2001,4001,600

Score in Elo; the axis starts at 1,200, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.

rank 35, Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
Arena Vision leaderboardhuman preference arena
maxindependent
1,286 ±11
1,2701,2901,310

Score in Elo; the axis starts at 1,270, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.

rank 19 of 165, Arena Vision overall, style control default, 165 models9 Oct 2026 arena.ai
max; 52.67 per secondaryindependent
53
090180

Score in index. Higher is better.

rank 7 of 205, AA leaderboard, 205 current models10 Oct 2026 artificialanalysis.ai
vendor-reported
85
090180

Score in index. Higher is better.

benchlm.ai frontier top 69 Oct 2026 benchlm.ai
vendor-reported
74.1
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Epoch data file of 15 Oct 2026: 0.41 behind Claude Opus 5.5, within each other's confidence intervalsmaintainer-run
166.41 CI 163.35 to 171.23
090180

Score in index. Higher is better.

rank 2, Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub15 Oct 2026 epoch.ai, epoch.ai
vendor-reported
97.6
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Solved 2 of 68 problemsmaintainer-run
3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub3 Sep 2026 epoch.ai
GPQA Diamondknowledge and reasoning
vendor-reported
96
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

vendor-reported
96
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

rank 1, BenchLM aggregator, top score10 Oct 2026 benchlm.ai
OpenAI MRCR v2long context
512K to 1Mvendor-reported
96.3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

OSWorld 2.0agents and tool use
vendor-reported
72.6
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Terminal-Bench 4.0agents and tool use
57.9% to 58.2% across sourcesvendor-reported
57.9
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

successor
GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Sol: successor, medium confidenceGPT-5.6 Sol to GPT-6 Astra: successor, medium confidenceGPT-6 Astra to GPT-6 Luna: successor, medium confidenceGPT-6 Astra to GPT-6 Sol: successor, medium confidenceGPT-6 Sol to GPT-6.1 Sol: successor, medium confidenceGPT-5.5GPT-5.5OpenAI, Apr 2026GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 SolOpenAI, Jul 2026GPT-6 AstraGPT-6 AstraOpenAI, Sep 2026GPT-6 LunaGPT-6 LunaOpenAI, Sep 2026GPT-6 SolGPT-6 SolOpenAI, Sep 2026GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI, Sep 2026
OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol is the parent (successor)medium confidencenotes
OpenAIGPT-6 Luna is a child (successor)medium confidencenotes
OpenAIGPT-6 Sol is a child (successor)medium confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 6 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
OpenAI
Family
GPT-6
Released
3 Sep 2026 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes Not disclosed; pre-trained on more than 100,000 GPUs at Stargate Texas (secondary, citing Axios)
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
1,050,000 tokens
Input
text, image
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
proprietary
Licence
Proprietary sources
Access routes
API, consumer app, cloud marketplace
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
Vendor cloud/API only (T1). Max output 128K. Staged rollout from 3 Sep 2026; second OpenAI post 9 Sep 2026.
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Models | OpenAI API developers.openai.com https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models
  2. openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
  3. openai.com/news/rss.xml https://openai.com/news/rss.xml
  4. OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Pricing, Benchmarks and Who Gets It First pasqualepillitteri.it https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/14246/openai-launches-gpt-6-astra-pricing-benchmarks
  5. GPT-6 Astra Is Live: OpenAI's New Flagship Open for Calls - API易文档中心 docs.apiyi.com https://docs.apiyi.com/en/news/gpt-6-astra-launch
  6. OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra for Coding and Computer Use infoq.com https://infoq.com/news/2026/09/openai-gpt6-astra
  7. Supported AI models in GitHub Copilot - GitHub Docs docs.github.com https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models
  8. GPQA Leaderboard (October 2026): GPT-6 Astra Leads at 96% benchlm.ai https://www.benchlm.ai/benchmarks/gpqa
  9. AI benchmarks & capabilities epoch.ai https://epoch.ai/benchmarks

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "GPT-6 Astra", https://aurion.semai.id/models/openai-gpt-6-astra/, records of October 2026.