Updated for Week 39, 2026

Grok 4.7 vs GPT-6 Sol

On our Week 39, 2026 scores, GPT-6 Sol edges ahead (92 vs 84). But Grok 4.7 is about 1.7x cheaper on output tokens than GPT-6 Sol. If cost matters more than the last few points of quality, Grok 4.7 is the smarter buy. Pick Grok 4.7 for real-time and social context. Pick GPT-6 Sol for daily work in ChatGPT.

Grok 4.7GPT-6 Sol
MakerxAIOpenAI
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2026September 22, 2026
Price / 1M tokens$2 in / $6 out$2 in / $10 out
Open weightsNoNo
Power Rankings rank#9 (84)#4 (92)
Coding rank#8 (74)#4 (90)
Best Value rank#7 (78)#3 (91)
Best for
  • Real-time and social context
  • General chat
  • Cheap output tokens
  • Daily work in ChatGPT
  • Coding in Codex
  • Balanced cost vs. quality
Strengths
  • $6 output pricing undercuts most frontier models
  • Half the price of GPT-5.6 Sol's promo rates
  • Fewer factual mistakes
  • Available in ChatGPT, Codex, the API and GitHub
Watch out for
  • 38% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, against 66.4% for Opus 5.5
  • Less reasoning headroom than Astra
  • Brand-new; independent testing still coming in

The short version

Grok 4.7: xAI's latest update keeps the same price as 4.6. It's a capable general model, but it falls well behind the leaders on agentic coding.

GPT-6 Sol: OpenAI's everyday workhorse. Sol brings Astra-style improvements to a much cheaper tier, and OpenAI says it makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol.

Rankings change every week. Check the latest standings or swap in a different model.