Copilot can now control desktop apps in public preview.
Coding agents have officially escaped the terminal and found the mouse.
That approval prompt is about to become the most important button on your computer.
A model costing 80% less per token than the flagship deserves attention.
It still doesn’t make it the cheapest model for every job.
OpenAI has released GPT‑6.1 Sol at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. GPT‑6 Astra is listed at $10 and $50 respectively. Both have a 1.05-million-token context window.
GitHub is also rolling GPT‑6.1 Sol into Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users. GitHub says its early testing used fewer tokens and steps than previous GPT‑6 and GPT‑5.6 models.
That sounds promising, but token price isn’t the same as cost per completed task.
A cheaper model can become expensive if it needs repeated corrections. A premium model can be wasteful if the cheaper one consistently completes the work on its first attempt.
The useful comparison is simple: same task, same repository, same acceptance criteria. Then measure completion rate, retries, review time and total usage.
Model choice should be a routing decision, not a loyalty decision.