--- title: "GPT-6.1 Sol Pricing: Cached Input Falls to $0.10 ยท AgentDots" description: "GPT-6.1 Sol leaves standard rates of $2 in and $10 out per million tokens alone but cuts cached input in half, to $0.10, which favours agents like OpenClaw." url: https://agentdots.org/news/gpt-6-1-sol-price/ lang: en --- Prices # GPT-6.1 Sol halves cached input, cutting the cost of long agent tasks Headline prices stay at $2 in and $10 out for each million tokens, but the repeated context that agents lean on now costs half as much. September 29, 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on 29 September, alongside the Dots launch, and claims it nearly matches Astra's results while costing a fraction as much, The Decoder reported. Standard rates are unchanged from GPT-6 Sol: a million input tokens cost $2 and a million output tokens $10. For ordinary chat use, then, nothing on the bill changes. The movement is in cached input, which FourWeekMBA and The Decoder report has fallen to $0.10 per million tokens, half the previous $0.20. Caching applies when a model is fed the same material again, and that is exactly how agents behave: with each step of a job they re-read the instructions, history and documents that came before, so repeated context makes up much of what they consume. The cut matters most to people paying per token, above all those running a self-hosted agent such as OpenClaw on their own API key. OpenClaw lets its users pick the model behind it, and long automations there are dominated by resent context. A runaway loop still costs money, but the portion spent on cached reads is now half what it was. What it means for you Anyone paying per token should check that prompt caching is enabled, since the discount covers cached reads only. Keep an eye on usage during the first weeks of any long automation. **Sources** - [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/gpt-6-1-sol-comes-close-to-astra-at-a-fifth-of-the-price/) - [FourWeekMBA](https://fourweekmba.com/ai-gpt-61-sol-cached-read-price-change/) ## About - [Dots](https://agentdots.org/agents/dots/) - [OpenClaw](https://agentdots.org/agents/openclaw/) ## More news September 29, 2026 [OpenAI unveils Dots, persistent agents that carry on once you log off](https://agentdots.org/news/openai-launches-dots/) September 29, 2026 [ChatGPT Pro adds a $500 tier as the $200 plan loses allowance](https://agentdots.org/news/chatgpt-pro-500/) September 29, 2026 [Australia receives an OpenAI apology over an agent's Medicare portal breach](https://agentdots.org/news/openai-apologises-to-australia/) September 28, 2026 [OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra a day before DevDay](https://agentdots.org/news/openai-shelves-astra/) September 28, 2026 [Muse told a Marketplace buyer where its owner lived, reviewer says](https://agentdots.org/news/muse-gave-out-address/) September 25, 2026 [OpenAI research agents put 53 users' pictures online, unnoticed by the lab](https://agentdots.org/news/openai-agents-leaked-images/)