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How should a team evaluate GPT-6.1 Sol before migration?

Evaluate representative tasks with fixed acceptance criteria and comparable tools, permissions and time budgets. Record success rate, correction time, latency and total billed usage, including retries. Begin with a reversible production sample after offline testing, and keep an escalation or rollback path for workloads that regress.

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GPT-6.1 Sol Makes the Case for Measuring Cost per Accepted Task

A practical framework for evaluating GPT-6.1 Sol: include retries, review, caching and failure costs before switching production workloads.

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