GPT-6.1 Sol
The balanced middle of OpenAI's range in NeverNo: thoughtful answers, image reading and a 200k-token context, reached without your identity.
Updated November 8, 2026
Readable on your devices only.
Your conversation is readable on your device, and on your other devices if you sync them. Nowhere else.
Unreadable to us.
Your message passes through without being written down; your chats are only ever stored encrypted.
The model doesn’t know you.
It gets the question, never your email, your account or your IP address.
Nothing is left along the way.
The reply comes back and is stored here, encrypted; even when you sync, your key never reaches us in the clear.
At a glance
| Maker | OpenAI |
|---|---|
| Context | 200,000 tokens |
| Longest reply | 16,384 tokens |
| Strengths in the app | Hard questions, Reasoning, Reads images |
| Reasoning | Always on |
| Who can use it | Paid plans |
| How it’s paid | Credits, from the first use |
| Privacy | Anonymized: NeverNo sends the request to its maker without your name, account or IP address. The maker still reads the text, applies its own rules and may keep it for a while under its own policy.Some requests its maker doesn’t allow are answered by one of NeverNo’s private models instead, and the app tells you so. |
Price
What the app charges, read from the same table the servers bill with. 1 credit = $0.01.
| Typical message (2,000 tokens read, 600 written) | 2.91 credits ($0.0291) |
|---|---|
| Million tokens read | 659.38 credits ($6.59) |
| Million tokens written | 2,637.5 credits ($26.38) |
Measured
Our own measurements and one third-party score, each with its conditions and date. Figures are not rounded.
| Median time to the first word | 1.63 sOur client, 12 everyday requests run 3 times each, November 9, 2026 |
|---|---|
| arena.ai Text Arena, overall score | 1,481Third-party leaderboard, page dated October 27, 2026 |
What it is
GPT-6.1 Sol is the OpenAI model most people will want by default. It sits between GPT-6 Astra, the flagship built for the heaviest code and reasoning, and GPT-6.1 Terra, the quick one. Sol is tagged smart, reasoning and vision in NeverNo's catalog, accepts 200k tokens of context and writes up to 16,384 tokens per reply, so a long essay, a detailed comparison or a full chapter outline fits in a single answer.
On the arena.ai Text Arena, Sol had an overall score of 1481 on the page dated October 27, 2026: a little above GPT-6 Astra (1476) and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (1477), below Gemini 4 Argon (1520). That chart reflects how people rate general conversation, which is exactly where Sol is meant to live: explaining, drafting, summarizing, arguing both sides of a question.
Sol is anonymized. NeverNo relays each request to OpenAI without your name, account or IP address, and your conversation history stays encrypted inside your browser. OpenAI still reads what it receives, applies its own rules, and may refuse or retain a request for a period set by its own policy. Some requests OpenAI does not allow are answered by one of NeverNo's private models instead, and the app tells you so.
Its reasoning cannot be disabled. You choose between Adaptive, where the model decides how much to think, and High, which asks for a more thorough pass. Sol is a premium model paid in credits on paid plans, and it uses fewer credits per exchange than Astra.
Strengths
Well rounded: its arena.ai score (1481, page dated October 27, 2026) is the highest of the three OpenAI models NeverNo offers.
Thinks before replying, which helps with nuanced questions, multi-part instructions and arguments that need checking.
Understands images: photos of notes, slides, receipts, interfaces or handwritten pages can be analyzed alongside your text.
Generous room: 200k tokens in, up to 16,384 tokens out, enough to work on a whole report or a long transcript at once.
Lighter on credits than GPT-6 Astra while staying in the same family, which makes it a sensible daily driver.
Limits
It is not the code specialist of the family: for big refactors or tricky debugging, GPT-6 Astra carries the code tag in the catalog.
Reasoning is always active, so replies start a little later than with a model whose reasoning can be switched off, such as GPT-6.1 Terra.
OpenAI applies its own moderation: Sol can refuse, and anything sent is subject to OpenAI's retention policy.
Paid plans only, billed in credits; Free accounts use the included models instead.
When to choose it
Writing that has to be right
Cover letters, grant proposals, newsletters, careful emails to a landlord or an employer: Sol plans the structure before writing, then adapts tone and length to the audience you describe.
Learning a topic from scratch
Ask it to explain tax brackets, a statistics concept or a historical period, then quiz you on it. Because it reasons first, it can catch the misunderstanding hidden in a follow-up question.
Making sense of a photo or screenshot
Snap a whiteboard after a meeting, a confusing bill or an error dialog and ask what it means, what to do next, or how to turn it into a checklist. Travelers use the same trick on menus, timetables and street signs written in a language they cannot read.
Prompt tips
Describe the reader: who will read the result, what they already know, and how long they will give it. Sol adjusts register and depth to that picture.
Ask for its assumptions to be listed before the answer when the question is ambiguous; you can then correct one line instead of rewriting the whole prompt.
Use High for decisions with trade-offs (two job offers, two architectures, two contracts) and Adaptive for everything else; the difference shows mostly on questions with several competing factors.
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-6.1 Sol free to use on NeverNo?
No. Sol is a premium model, paid in credits and reserved for paid plans. Free accounts can use the included models, such as Mistral Small 3.2 or Qwen 3.5 35B.
Does OpenAI see who I am when I use GPT-6.1 Sol?
No name, account or IP address is sent: the request reaches OpenAI anonymized. OpenAI does read the text itself and applies its own rules, so the conversation is anonymized rather than private.
How much text can GPT-6.1 Sol handle?
Its context window in NeverNo is 200k tokens, and a single reply can run to 16,384 tokens.
GPT-6.1 Sol or Claude Sonnet 5.5?
Both are mid-range models with a 200k context and image reading. On the arena.ai Text Arena (page dated October 27, 2026) they are almost level: 1481 for Sol, 1477 for Sonnet. Sonnet carries a code tag in NeverNo's catalog; Sol is the pick if you prefer OpenAI's style for writing and explanation.
Can GPT-6.1 Sol read images?
Yes. Attach a picture to your message and Sol reads it with your question. Images are sent to OpenAI as they are; only text can be masked by NeverNo's personal-data setting.