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Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls

Retell leverages OpenAI models to support 100 million monthly calls, with GPT‑6 Astra achieving top performance on its voice agent benchmark. Codex contributes to the company’s financial success, helping it reach a $1.6 million annual revenue run rate per employee.

Simon Willison
Sep 3

GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra is a new OpenAI model rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and soon to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise users, and via the OpenAI API and AWS. It is priced at $10/million input and $50/million output, matching Claude Fable 5/5.1, and outperforms Fable on most OpenAI self‑reported benchmarks, achieving 99.9% on the ARC‑AGI 3 benchmark with a custom Provider Adapter harness. Astra excels in security tasks—scoring 100% on ExploitBench, 42.4% on ExploitGym, and 99.2% on SRE‑Bench—and handles long context well, hitting 100% on OpenAI’s eight‑needle benchmark at 256K–512K tokens and 96.3% at 512K–1M tokens, though it remains behind Fable on the Intelligence Index and Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3.