head-to-head

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score62.337.7
Input Price$0.20/M$0.75/M
Output Price$1.20/M$4.50/M
Context Window1,050,000400,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index61.639.7

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
SQL Generation 141 138
Code Review 143 139
Code Completion 133 131
Code Refactoring 145 142
Bug Fixing 147 143
Unit Test Generation 131 128
Code Documentation 137 134
Regex Writing 125 122
CI/CD Pipelines 127 124
Frontend Component Design 129 126
Data Analysis 133 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 136 133
JSON Extraction 131 130
Bulk Data Labeling 129 128
OCR / Document Parsing 134 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 133
Long-Document Summarization 147 143
Short-Form Summarization 126 124
Blog Post Writing 129 126

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

Related comparisons

Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna

The Model Movers Report

One email every Friday, built from this site's own rankings: the current top five by benchmark score, every model released in the last seven days, and one note worked out from that week's numbers. You can unsubscribe from any issue with one click.