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GPT-5.6 Terra

by OpenAI

Current flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$12.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$4.50

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

Cached input

$0.200

10% of input — prompt caching

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

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Overview

Balanced GPT-5.6 tier trading a step of intelligence for lower cost — the mid capability tier in the Sol/Terra/Luna scheme. 1.05M context, 128K max output, text + image input. $2/$12 per 1M tokens (cached input $0.20).

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 score87.7%
Perf per $/Mtok19.5
GPQA Diamond
92.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
82.5%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 42.3 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 0.1 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1477 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1466 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #3 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #39 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 6 independent measurements
  • Ranks #140 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at GPQA Diamond — 92.9%, #15 of 65

135.5 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
reasoningmultimodalflagship

Availability verified: listed on OpenAI's own page