Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose GPT-5.4 if you want the OpenAI daily driver — strong and well-priced. Choose GPT-5.6 Terra if you want the everyday OpenAI default for agents — volume work with frontier-adjacent quality.
In our editorial scoring, GPT-5.6 Terra leads in 3 of five dimensions (speed, value for $ and reliability), while GPT-5.4 leads in 2. On price, GPT-5.4 runs about $6.25 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; GPT-5.6 Terra is about $6.25 and proprietary.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.