Model Comparison 2026

GPT-5.6 Luna vs GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI · Budget · Proprietary
$2.50/1M · 1.1M ctx
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI · Balanced · Proprietary
$6.25/1M · 1.1M ctx

Community Vote

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Output Quality
Correctness and depth of what it produces
Agentic Ability
Tool calls, instruction-following, and multi-step tasks
Speed
Tokens per second and time-to-first-token
Value for $
How much capability you get per dollar
Reliability
Consistent results — fewer refusals, loops, and format breaks

Specs & Pricing, Side by Side

Spec
Luna
Terra
Maker
OpenAI
OpenAI
Blended price / 1M
$2.50
$6.25
Input / output
$1.00 in · $6.00 out / 1M tokens
$2.50 in · $15 out / 1M tokens
Context window
1.1M
1.1M
Open weights
No
No
Tool use
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Yes
Output Quality
8.4
9.0
Agentic Ability
8.3
9.0
Speed
9.3
8.4
Value for $
9.0
8.8
Reliability
9.1
9.2

Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).

Verdict: Luna or Terra?

Updated 2026-07-17

Choose GPT-5.6 Luna if you want cheap, fast subtasks, routing, and subagents in OpenAI-based stacks. 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 (output quality, agentic ability and reliability), while GPT-5.6 Luna leads in 2. On price, GPT-5.6 Luna runs about $2.50 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; GPT-5.6 Terra is about $6.25 and proprietary.

Where Luna falls short
  • Clear quality step below Terra and Sol
  • Very new — behavior under long agent chains still settling
Full Luna breakdown →
Where Terra falls short
  • Steps behind Sol on the hardest tasks
  • Very new — long-run agent behavior still being characterized
Full Terra breakdown →

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