[roncesvalles]

>5.6 Sol, competitive with Fable (or close enough), and it's available via subscription (even the $20 subscription!)

It's not comparable because OpenAI caps thinking to High in the ChatGPT "Chat" interface (and the "Work" thing where it actually does let us use Extra or Max is fucking shit).

GPT 5.6 Sol (High) is almost certainly worse than Opus 4.8 (Extra), and nowhere close to Fable (Extra).

I literally got a refund for my $20 OpenAI subscription after playing around with 5.6 Sol for a couple of hours (yes even on Codex) because it's so unusable and I'd rather just use Fable today and 4.8 Extra starting tomorrow, still within my $20 Anthropic plan. And I'm not even poor.

[vardalab]

I don't know what your evals are, but you need to reevaluate them.

[fragmede]

5.6 Sol isn't Fable, but calling it unusable is a bit much.

[roncesvalles]

It's unusable only because I can't set 5.6 to Extra thinking in the "Chat" tab, and the "Work" feature that does let me use Extra is totally gimped for coding tasks. I'd rather use Opus 4.8 Extra/Max instead of Sol High (look up the benchmarks, thinking level is everything).

It is quite literally unusable to me.

[fragmede]

Oh so you used it but the results were sub par, not that you were unable to use it.

[blovescoffee]

> I'd rather use

Is different than

> quite literally unusable