🛠️OpenAI DevDay 2026: GPT-6.1 Sol at One-Fifth Astra Price
TL;DR
OpenAI's DevDay brought GPT-6.1 Sol, near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth the token price, plus an Agents API with computer use. Codex gets a cloud runtime and a security scanner.
OpenAI's DevDay brought GPT-6.1 Sol, near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth the token price, plus an Agents API with computer use. Codex gets a cloud runtime and a security scanner. Ultrafast mode pushes 300 tokens per second.
Key Points
GPT-6.1 Sol targets agentic coding at about one-fifth of standard Astra token prices
Ultrafast tier: up to 8x faster in Codex (300 tokens/sec) and up to 6x in the API
Agents API adds computer use, multi-agent support and tool calling
Codex Cloud runs dev environments remotely; Codex Security Cloud scans repos and prepares fixes
Private Inference on confidential computing lands fall 2026; ChatGPT now counts 1.2B weekly users
Why It Matters
Cheaper near-frontier models and a hosted agent runtime lower the cost of building agents on OpenAI. Builders comparing stacks should re-run their cost-per-task math this week.
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