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VERIFIEDOct 132026
Is GPT-5.6 Sol state of the art?
Yes.SOTA in co-SOTA in Vision.

As of Oct 13, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol from OpenAI. SOTA in co-SOTA in Vision. GPT-5.6 Sol is tied for SOTA in Vision with GPT-6 Astra, within the margin of error, since 2026-09-09.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 13, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
General LLMNot SOTA · #1#1 · 0dReasoningNot SOTA · #1#1 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #15#15 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #39#39 · 0dCoding · paretoNot SOTA · #39#39 · 0dCoding › AgenticNot SOTA · #11#11 · 0dCoding › Agentic · paretoNot SOTA · #11#11 · 0dCoding › Web devNot SOTA · #1#1 · 0dVisionCo-SOTA#2 · 34dVision · paretoPareto#2 · 0d
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Last listed at #1 in General LLM on 2026-07-26.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh · xhigh
1484.9069902166975 1477.7–1492.12026-07-26INDEP.snap_51142aff7bb5
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh · xhigh
1505.9985113055313 1497.3–1514.72026-07-26INDEP.snap_51142aff7bb5
GPQA Diamond
gpt-5.6-sol_max · max
0.9349747474747475 0.9–1.02026-07-09INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
Terminal-Bench 4.0
GPT-5.6 Sol max · max
37.27 33.5–41.12026-10-06INDEP.snap_13678220dcf7
LMArena WebDev
gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness) · xhigh
1617.6518905050748 1610.4–1624.92026-09-04INDEP.snap_6c327280fd30
GDP.pdf
gpt-5.6-sol_max · max
0.3072026-07-09INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
SimpleQA Verified
gpt-5.6-sol_max · max
0.697 0.7–0.72026-07-09INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
ARC-AGI
gpt-5.6-sol_xhigh · xhigh
0.9752026-07-09INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

Full timeline →
Vision
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Claude Fable 5
GPT-5.5
Claude Fable 5
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-6 Astra
Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #1Last listed at #1 in General LLM on 2026-07-26.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #1Last listed at #1 in Reasoning on 2026-07-26.
ScienceNot SOTA · #15Last listed at #15 in Science on 2026-07-09. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #39Ranked #39 in Coding.
Coding › AgenticNot SOTA · #11Ranked #11 in Coding › Agentic.
Coding › Web devNot SOTA · #1Last listed at #1 in Coding › Web dev on 2026-09-04.
FactualityNot SOTA · #8Last listed at #8 in Factuality on 2026-07-09.
Abstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #7Last listed at #7 in Abstraction (ARC) on 2026-07-09. That board does not award a crown.