6.1 Sol is slower than 6 Sol: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/releases/gpt-6-1-sol

However, that doesn't say much. You can just run a smaller model at a larger batch size to get higher throughput but lower interactivity.

It's not that terrible then if that's the case. 5.6 Sol was superb in my eyes, and while I've tried a million things, there hasn't been anything that 6 Astra improved or did better than 5.6 Sol, while costing a ton of time and resources. Including research topics, where it should have excelled. So even if 6.1 Sol is no worse than 5.6 but cheaper and faster, the gutted Pro200 might still make sense.