Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

Ploy, an AI agent company, has migrated its production infrastructure from Claude Opus to OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol model. The transition resulted in a 2.2x speed increase and a 27% reduction in costs, though it required significant technical adjustments to handle provider-specific behaviors.
As of today, Ploy’s agent runs on GPT-5.6 Sol, the flagship tier of the model family OpenAI released this morning. For months, we couldn’t find a model that challenges Claude Opus given our incredibly high bar for quality. That changed with GPT 5.6 Sol. After running it head-to-head against Claude Opus, we’ve made GPT 5.6 Sol the default model powering every Ploy workspace.
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