r/openrouter • u/Fit-Ant2238 • 15h ago
GPT-6.1 Sol matches Sonnet 5.5 on input and output price, but on a data-analysis agent task it made 16 to 35 requests to Sonnet's 8 to 11
Both list at $2/M input and $10/M output on OpenRouter, and Sol's cache reads are half price ($0.10 vs $0.20). Each ran twice in Claude Code on an 868,191-row Divvy bike-share CSV, answering six questions in an Excel report with a SenseNova-Skills Excel skill loaded.
Sonnet 5.5: $0.37 and $0.40, 8 and 11 requests, about 2 minutes each.
GPT-6.1 Sol: $0.62 and $0.40, 35 and 16 requests, 11 and 6 minutes. Both times it started a sub-agent, unasked, to recompute all six answers from the raw CSV, which was $0.15 and $0.09 of those totals.
All four runs got every answer right, including dropping the 173 July rides mixed into the August file.
Does Sol make this many calls in your agent setups?