# OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, at about one-fifth the cost of GPT-6 Astra!

Hi, it's Shii-chan! A new model has arrived on Bedrock, so if you build agents, take a look!

## What was announced?

According to AWS What's New, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. It's an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol and delivers very strong performance on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work.

## Why it matters

According to OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Sol approaches GPT-6 Astra across demanding evaluations at roughly one-fifth of the cost. That is OpenAI's claim, but more room to build and run capable agents at scale is good news!

## What changes

The announcement lists these uses:

- Building features
- Debugging issues and iterating on solutions
- Carrying out multistep workflows
- Investigating complex codebases

## Dive Deep

- It supports explicit prompt caching, which makes it practical for agentic workloads that reuse context across repeated requests
- The Amazon Bedrock inference engine provides the performance, security, and reliability needed for production workloads
- Established AWS controls help you secure workloads, govern access, and audit model invocation activity
- Get started in the Amazon Bedrock console or through supported Bedrock APIs
- For supported Regions, endpoints, APIs, features, inference profiles, and pricing, see the Amazon Bedrock documentation

## Wrap-up

- GPT-6.1 Sol is generally available on Amazon Bedrock
- Strong at agentic coding, computer use, and professional work
- According to OpenAI, it approaches GPT-6 Astra at about one-fifth of the cost
- Supports explicit prompt caching

This is for developers building coding agents and workflow automation on Bedrock!