GPT-6.1 Sol Pro hallucination rate, measured
Does GPT-6.1 Sol Pro fabricate fewer citations than GPT-6 Sol Pro?
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro invented 2.7 percent of the DOIs it offered across three runs, and GPT-6 Sol Pro invented 6.5 percent on the same thirty claims (p = 0.21). It possibly fabricates fewer, and this test cannot confirm it. A DOI is the permanent ID that links a citation to its paper, so an invented one points at nothing. Chance alone opens a gap this size about one time in five. It put no real ID on the wrong paper in 112 tries. Pro mode bought nothing here. GPT-6.1 Sol in standard mode scored 2.8 percent on the same day, and pro mode cost 3.7 times as much.
Read this if you draft with GPT-6.1 Sol Pro and publish the sources it gives you.
Three fakes in 112, and no miscitations
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro invented 5.4 percent of its DOIs, then 2.7, then 0.0. GPT-6 Sol Pro ran the same thirty claims on the same day and invented 5.6 percent, then 5.6, then 8.3.
Pooled, that is 2.7 percent against 6.5, and a Fisher exact test gives p = 0.21. The new model was level in run 1 and lower in runs 2 and 3. We also count real IDs attached to the wrong paper. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro had none and GPT-6 Sol Pro had one. Counting both kinds of error, it is 2.7 percent against 7.4 (p = 0.13). No run on its own cleared the usual bar of 0.05, so the answer is a null: lower, and not by a margin we can confirm.
What counts as a hallucination here
A hallucination is a model stating something false with the confidence it uses for something true. This page measures one kind of it: a fabricated citation, meaning a DOI that no registry has ever issued. We measure that kind because it has an objective answer. Whether a claim is true can be argued. Whether a DOI resolves cannot. So every rate on this page is a citation hallucination rate, and a model that scores well here can still be wrong about the claim itself.
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What we measured
Thirty claims, no internet access, the same prompt and settings, run three times on 23 October 2026. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro is the subject. GPT-6 Sol Pro is the model it updates, in the same tier and the same pro mode, listed a week earlier. We measured it here on the same day. Grok 4.3 is a control that has run in every test since the second one. It sits in another line and is never compared with the pair. It scored 10.1 percent here, inside its usual band. GPT-6.1 Sol in standard mode also ran that day, and its result is in the note below the table.
Made-up DOIs from GPT-6.1 Sol Pro and the models beside it. Three runs of the same 30 claims on October 23, 2026.
| Model | Role | Run 1One run puts all 30 claims to the model once. The prompt and the settings stay the same in each run. | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run spreadThe lowest run and the highest run. A wide spread tells you that one run alone can give a different answer. | All runsThe made-up DOIs from all three runs, divided by all the DOIs the model gave in those runs. That is about 135 DOIs for each model. | Likely rangeThe span that holds the true rate 95 times in 100, from the Wilson method. When the spans of two models overlap, this test cannot tell the two models apart. |
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| GPT-6.1 Sol Pro | subject | 5.4% | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0.0–5.4% | 2.7% | 0.9–7.6% |
| GPT-6 Sol Pro | predecessor | 5.6% | 5.6% | 8.3% | 5.6–8.3% | 6.5% | 3.2–12.8% |
| Grok 4.3 | control | 12.8% | 8.9% | 8.9% | 8.9–12.8% | 10.1% | 6.0–16.5% |
Each row shows one model. Run 1, Run 2 and Run 3 show the share of its DOIs that no registry knows. Run spread shows the lowest and the highest run. All runs adds the three runs together. Likely range shows where the true rate most likely sits, 95 times in 100.
How to read this
- Run
- One run puts all 30 claims to the model once. The prompt and the settings stay the same in each run.
- Run spread
- The lowest run and the highest run. A wide spread tells you that one run alone can give a different answer.
- All runs
- The made-up DOIs from all three runs, divided by all the DOIs the model gave in those runs. That is about 135 DOIs for each model.
- Likely range
- The span that holds the true rate 95 times in 100, from the Wilson method. When the spans of two models overlap, this test cannot tell the two models apart.
- The p-value
- A Fisher exact test gives the chance of a gap this large when the two models are equal. We treat a p-value above 0.05 as noise.
- Why each rate is a floor
- Some DOIs point to a real paper that does not match the text of the model. We do not count these DOIs as made up. So the true rate is equal to the rate here or higher.
The rate divides invented DOIs by DOIs offered. A DOI counts as invented only when no registry has issued it. Pooled over three runs, GPT-6.1 Sol Pro invented 3 of 112, with a 95 percent interval of 0.9 to 7.6 percent. GPT-6 Sol Pro invented 7 of 108, from 3.2 to 12.8 percent, and Grok 4.3 invented 13 of 129, from 6.0 to 16.5 percent. Fisher exact on the pair gives p = 0.21, and run by run it gives 1.0, 0.61 and 0.11. One DOI from the pair led to a real paper whose title did not match what the model wrote. It came from GPT-6 Sol Pro. We graded it against the paper's registered first author and year, and it was a miscitation. Counting both kinds of error, GPT-6.1 Sol Pro got 3 of 112 wrong and GPT-6 Sol Pro got 8 of 108, p = 0.13. GPT-6.1 Sol, the same model in standard mode, ran the same claims that day as a reference. It invented 3 of 107, or 2.8 percent, from 1.0 to 7.9 percent, with no miscitations. Against pro mode, Fisher exact gives p = 1.0, and run by run 1.0, 1.0 and 0.24. GPT-6.1 Sol's own page reports an earlier test, and we do not set its rates beside these. The full test ran eight new models against the models before them on one day and cost $7.77. Five of those pairs hit our answer-length cap and ran again, so three pages come from this test, and this is one.
What this data cannot tell you
- It cannot rank vendors. Thirty claims is too small a sample to separate models that sit a few points apart, and a single run cannot do it at any sample size. Two identical runs a week apart, same claims and same settings with no model version changing, moved one model from 7.0 to 13.3 percent and another from 4.7 to 0.0. Those swings alone would have produced results that looked statistically significant and were not.
- It only compares like with like. Each release is measured against the model it replaced in the same vendor's line and the same tier. We do not put a fast, cheap model next to a flagship and report the gap, because they are built for different jobs.
- It measures ungrounded recall, not the product you use. No web search, no retrieval, no tools. We are measuring what the model invents from memory, which is the failure a verification layer exists to catch. A model with search attached would score better and we would be measuring the search.
- A result that shows nothing still gets published. Most of these comparisons come back inconclusive, and we say so.
Three fakes on three papers, and none came back
The thirty claims split into two groups. Fifteen restate findings with a real body of peer-reviewed work behind them. Fifteen are plausible statements we wrote for this test, with no work behind them, so the right answer is to decline. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro offered no source for any of the fifteen in any run, and gave sources for every real claim.
All three of its fakes came on real claims, each on a different paper, and none came back in a second run. The third was a 2011 paper on antibiotic resistance in the gut, cited as 10.4061/2011/312956. GPT-6 Sol Pro gave its two most common fakes in every run.
In runs 2 and 3, GPT-6.1 Sol Pro cited Jade Wu's 2015 review with its real ID, 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.3006. In run 1 it gave 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.3009, one digit off. No registry has issued that one.
In run 2 it cited Card and Krueger's 1994 study as 10.2307/2118030, an ID that does not exist. GPT-6 Sol Pro gave that string in all three runs. In run 1, GPT-6.1 Sol Pro cited the authors' 2000 reply instead, at 10.1257/aer.90.5.1397, and that ID is real.
GPT-6 Sol Pro cited Attention Is All You Need as 10.5555/3295222.3295349 in all three runs. That paper appeared at a conference whose proceedings carry no DOI, and no registry has issued this one. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro never gave that string, and every ID it offered on this claim was real.
What pro mode bought on this test
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro runs the same model as GPT-6.1 Sol with more compute per answer. We ran standard mode on the same claims, on the same day, as a reference. Pro mode invented 2.7 percent of its DOIs and standard mode 2.8 percent (p = 1.0), and neither put a real ID on the wrong paper. Pro mode billed $0.84 for its 90 answers and standard mode $0.23. That is 3.7 times as much, for no change we could measure in citations. This test covers citations at low effort only. It does not show what pro mode adds on other tasks.
One paper, two labs, two fake IDs
Jade Wu's 2015 review of therapy for insomnia is real, and its ID is 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.3006. On 23 October, GPT-6.1 Sol Pro gave it that ID twice and 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.3009 once. Muse Wonder from Meta gave the real ID in one run. In another it put the paper in JAMA Psychiatry, as 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.0962. GPT-6.1 Sol gave the same 2015.3009 string in an earlier test. Both labs knew the paper, and both slipped on its ID. Knowing a paper and knowing its ID are separate, and only a registry lookup checks the second.
Fabrication is one failure. Sycophancy is the other.
This benchmark measures fabrication: the model inventing a source it does not have. It does not measure sycophancy, the model bending its answer toward the opinion you showed it. A sycophantic model asked whether its own citation is real tends to say yes, which is why a model cannot be the check on its own draft. We test for both, with different instruments. Citations go to the registries that issue DOIs, the same check the hallucination checker runs on a pasted draft. Drafts go through the sycophancy detector, which scores how far a piece over-claims. If the word is new to you, what AI sycophancy is covers the mechanism.
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro made three fakes in 112. One was a real ID with one digit changed, on a paper it cited correctly in its other two runs. TrueStandard does the checking. Paste a draft, and four models from different labs check each claim and citation against each other and against the registries that issue DOIs.
How current this is
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro became available through the API on 29 September 2026. We measured it and put this page up on 23 October, 24 days later. That misses the 48-hour target we set ourselves by three weeks. We measured GPT-6 Sol Pro again on the same day, so the comparison is fresh even though the page is late.
How we ran it
Every model gets the same thirty claims, the same prompt, the same settings, and no access to the internet. Fifteen claims are well documented and have real literature behind them. Fifteen are specific, plausible-sounding statements we constructed and know of no support for, which is where the pressure to invent a source comes from. We ask for up to three peer-reviewed sources with DOIs, then check every DOI against Crossref and, when Crossref does not hold it, DataCite. A DOI that exists in neither is counted as fabricated. A DOI that exists but resolves to a paper whose title does not match what the model described goes to a manual-review queue and is not counted on either side, so every rate here is a floor.
Three caveats. First, all three runs happened on one day. A model's rate can move between days, which is why we measure the old model again next to the new one. A second day for this pair is open work. Second, at rates this low, thirty claims cannot separate two models. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro's true rate could sit anywhere from about 1 to 8 percent, and GPT-6 Sol Pro's from about 3 to 13. Third, all the models ran at low reasoning effort with no web access. That is close to the setting most chat users get. This test did not try a higher effort, web search or a sycophancy check, and we did not read the one miscitation by hand. Our scorer checks DOIs against Crossref and DataCite. We then checked all 245 dead IDs from the day's seventeen models at doi.org, which covers every agency. None of them resolve.
The claim set, the prompt, the model identifiers, every raw response and every DOI verdict are committed beside the code that built this page, and a public mirror under CC BY 4.0 is being set up. Until it is live, ask and we will send the run files.
Common questions
Does GPT-6.1 Sol Pro hallucinate citations?
Yes, rarely. With no web access, it invented 3 of the 112 DOIs it offered across three runs on 23 October, or 2.7 percent. It put no real ID on the wrong paper.
Is GPT-6.1 Sol Pro better than GPT-6 Sol Pro at citations?
It was lower, and we cannot confirm the gap. It invented 2.7 percent of its DOIs against 6.5 for GPT-6 Sol Pro (p = 0.21). Counting real IDs on the wrong paper too, it got 2.7 percent wrong against 7.4 (p = 0.13). Both results come from three runs on one day.
Is pro mode worth paying for if I care about citations?
Not on this test. Standard mode, GPT-6.1 Sol, invented 2.8 percent of its DOIs on the same day, against 2.7 for pro mode (p = 1.0). Pro mode cost 3.7 times as much. We tested citations at low effort only, so this says nothing about other tasks.
Why compare it to GPT-6 Sol Pro and not to GPT-6.1 Sol?
We measure each release against the model it updates, in the same line, tier and mode. GPT-6 Sol Pro is that model. GPT-6.1 Sol is the same model in standard mode, so we ran it as a reference. Its result is on this page in words, not in the table.
Can I trust GPT-6.1 Sol Pro's citations without checking them?
Not without a check. Three in 112 is low, and one of the three was a real ID with one digit changed. A fake like that looks right at a glance. Check each DOI against a registry before you cite it.
Why does another benchmark give GPT-6.1 Sol Pro a different hallucination rate?
Because it measures something else. Most hallucination scores count wrong answers to questions, and some run the model at maximum effort. Ours counts citation IDs that no registry has issued, at low effort. A DOI either resolves or it does not, so anyone can check our number without trusting a model to grade it.
Can I reproduce this?
Yes. We keep every input and output: the claims, the prompt, the model IDs, all three runs of raw answers, every DOI verdict and the graded miscitation file. The day's test covered eight new models and cost $7.77. Ask and we will send the run files.
Is this the GPT-6.1 Sol Pro hallucination rate?
It is its citation hallucination rate: the share of DOIs it gave that no registry has issued, with no web access. A general accuracy score would need a different test. We measure citations because the answer is a fact anyone can check.
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