Still too expensive. Needs to come down to $1 or less to compete with china.

It did. And 6.1 now outcompetes China in most cases.

Chinese models are cheap and fast by token, but they generate oceans of thinking tokens in order to accomplish the same result GPT-6.1-Sol accomplishes in, comparatively, two drops of thinking tokens, making the Chinese models come out costlier and slower per actual task performed end-to-end.

Here's from artificialanalysis.ai, per task:

* Deepseek-v4.1-flash (max): 0.27$, 5.5 minutes, 89k tokens generated.

* GPT-6.1-Sol (medium) : 0.21$, 2.2 minutes, 8k tokens generated.

API pricing. With Sol having SUBSTANTIALLY better performance.