GPT-5.6 Sol Gets Up to 33.3% Cheaper on Bedrock!
Hey everyone, it's Shiichan! I found a happy pricing update around Amazon Bedrock today, so let me walk you through it.
AWS What's New
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What was announced?
AWS's What's New page announced a price cut for the OpenAI model "GPT-5.6 Sol" on Amazon Bedrock. Specifically, input tokens now cost $4 per million tokens and output tokens cost $20 per million tokens — that's 20% lower input pricing and 33.3% lower output pricing.
The story so far
Bedrock's OpenAI lineup recently saw price cuts for GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, while Sol's pricing stayed unchanged at the time. This announcement follows that update, finally bringing a price cut to Sol as well.
What changes
Sol is described as delivering strong results on agentic coding benchmarks, so this price cut makes it easier to lean into workloads like:
- Running autonomous coding agents
- Complex, multi-step analysis tasks
- Advanced research workflows
The more tokens a workload uses, the more you'll feel the benefit of this cut. If you're already using Sol on Bedrock, the new pricing applies automatically — no extra sign-up needed.
Dive Deep
Here's what AWS's announcement page says about the promotional pricing.
- Input tokens: $4 per million tokens (20% lower than before)
- Output tokens: $20 per million tokens (33.3% lower than before)
- Duration: available through at least November 21, 2026
The announcement doesn't list supported regions directly — it points you to the AWS Regions page instead. For exact pricing and the latest availability, the Amazon Bedrock documentation page for GPT-5.6 Sol is the place to check.
Wrap-up
- GPT-5.6 Sol just got cheaper on Amazon Bedrock
- Input tokens are 20% lower, output tokens are 33.3% lower
- The promotional pricing runs through at least November 21, 2026
- This follows the earlier price cuts for Terra and Luna, now Sol joins them too
- Great news if you're running coding agents or research workloads on GPT-5.6 Sol via Bedrock!