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GPT-5.6 Luna

by OpenAI

Current mid tier cheap tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.200

per 1M tokens

Output

$1.20

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.450

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.020

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official OpenAI pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

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Overview

Low-cost, high-volume GPT-5.6 tier — the efficient option in the Sol/Terra/Luna scheme, for cost-sensitive workloads. 1.05M context, 128K max output, text + image input. $0.20/$1.20 per 1M tokens (cached input $0.02).

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score90.7%
Perf per $/Mtok201.6
GPQA Diamond
92.3%
SWE-Bench Verified
93%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
84.3%
HumanEval
93%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 37.5 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -10.3 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1489.3 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1452.5 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #1 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #37 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 8 independent measurements
  • Ranks #12 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at HumanEval — 93%, #5 of 49

184.6 tokens/sec output

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
OpenAI
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
reasoningmultimodal

Availability verified: listed on OpenAI's own page