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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score10098
Input Price$0.10/M$4.00/M
Output Price$0.60/M$20.00/M
Context Window1,050,0001,050,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) costs $0.25 and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro costs $9.00, so GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) is about 36.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro
SQL Generation 133 129
Code Review 132 130
Code Completion 131 113
Code Refactoring 136 134
Bug Fixing 136 134
Unit Test Generation 124 122
Code Documentation 131 125
Regex Writing 119 113
CI/CD Pipelines 120 118
Frontend Component Design 122 120
Data Analysis 124 122
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 129
ETL Scripting 128 126
JSON Extraction 131 117
Bulk Data Labeling 129 112
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 133
Short-Form Summarization 123 109
Blog Post Writing 121 117

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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