Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 85.6 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 4.4% for Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B.
  • Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
GPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderOpenAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index65.033.0
Released2026-07-092024-11-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6514

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 36.0 (#214)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Coding14981235
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1618—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
GSO76.5%—
WeirdML89.4%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
APEX-Agents51.4%—
OSWorld 2.027.3%—
τ²-bench Banking46.9%—
PostTrainBench36.2%—
BALROG60%—
GBAEval52.6%—
GDP.pdf30.7%—
LMArena Search1257—
Vending-Bench 29,619—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 23.9 (#169)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14841220
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
SimpleBench71.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt32.3%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index161.66—

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 14.2 (#303)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%4.4%
LMArena Math14741242
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%—
ProofBench83%—
MATH Level 5—42.7%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.0 (#264)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond93.5%46.3%
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—
LMArena Expert1516—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 39.9 (#222)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English14521236
LMArena Chinese15271249
LMArena Russian14681246
LMArena French1477—
LMArena German1476—
LMArena Japanese1471—
LMArena Korean1442—
LMArena Spanish1441—

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 64.8 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Instruction Following14821233

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#222)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query14801224

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.6 (#223)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text14571256
LMArena Creative Writing14481231
LMArena Multi-Turn14601252
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 65 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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