OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-09.
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | openai | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 62.3 | 71.1 |
| Input Price | $0.20/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $1.20/M | $12.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,050,000 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 61.6 | 69.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.50 and GPT-5.6 Terra costs $5.00, so GPT-5.6 Luna is about 10.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.6 Terra leads 71.1 to 62.3.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.6 Luna scores higher on 9 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others), GPT-5.6 Terra on 10 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others).
Pick GPT-5.6 Luna if you need lower cost; pick GPT-5.6 Terra if you need benchmark performance.
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?
| Task | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 141 | 140 |
| Code Review | 143 | 145 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 118 |
| Code Refactoring | 145 | 147 |
| Bug Fixing | 147 | 149 |
| Unit Test Generation | 131 | 132 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 135 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 127 | 128 |
| Frontend Component Design | 129 | 130 |
| Data Analysis | 133 | 134 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 135 |
| ETL Scripting | 136 | 137 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 117 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 134 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 126 | 116 |
| Blog Post Writing | 129 | 128 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →