OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 Astra out first to restricted cybersecurity customers, API access and AWS expected to follow over the coming days.

In a press briefing with reporters OpenAI President Greg Brockman suggested this may be the model later remembered as AGI. his closing line, "Welcome to the AGI era."

The rollout is deliberately narrow: Daybreak cybersecurity customers get first access, with Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, API and AWS availability expected over the following days.

OpenAI says Astra improves computer use, coding, financial modeling and finished professional work such as spreadsheets and presentations, alongside stronger results on several reasoning and cybersecurity benchmarks.

At $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, Astra costs 2.5 times GPT-5.6 Sol's current API rates. It's the same pricing as Anthropic's Feble 5.1.

Brockman suggested the industry may eventually move beyond token-based pricing. He argued that tokens are not directly comparable between AI companies or across different model families, so “the price per task is what matters.”

Astra scored 100% on ExploitBench and found two zero-day V8 vulnerabilities in an internal evaluation, although those results used Daybreak Blue access rather than the default production configuration.

That capability led OpenAI to classify Astra as its first Critical-cyber model and restrict its most advanced cybersecurity access to vetted users.