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GPT-5.6 Terra

by OpenAI

Current new · 23d flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$12.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$7.00

avg of input & output $/1M

Cached input

$0.200

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official OpenAI pricing · read Aug 1, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-01

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 $/Mtok10
GPQA Diamond
92.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
82.5%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 55 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 47.4 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -0.2 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1582.7 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #4 of 68 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #15 of 133 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 6 independent measurements
  • Ranks #97 of 133 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at GPQA Diamond — 92.9%, #11 of 57

135.5 tokens/sec output

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated Aug 1, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
OpenAI
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Jul 9, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 1, 2026
Tags
reasoningmultimodalflagship

Availability verified: Aug 1, 2026 — listed on OpenAI's own page