GPT-6 Sol ranks far below GPT-5.6 Sol on Text Arena

Token Gremlin @TokenGremlinOriginally posted 2026.09.27

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One detail a lot of people missed: GPT-6 Sol is currently performing much worse than GPT-5.6 Sol in Text Arena. GPT-5.6 Sol sits around rank #19. GPT-6 Sol is around rank #60. That’s a massive drop in blind human preference tests for text. GPT-6 Sol may be cheaper and much stronger at coding and agentic work, but for normal ChatGPT-style conversations, this looks like a pretty brutal regression.