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Sunday, September 20, 2026 AutoCurated · Updated 11:15 UTC

Models · OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.6 Terra offers a balanced price-performance profile, delivering strong reasoning and coding at half the cost of Sol. Ideal for production workloads that need reliability without the flagship premium.

Input $2.50 per 1M tokens
Output $15.00 per 1M tokens
Context 256K tokens · $17.50 combined per 1M
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Benchmark performance

GPQA Diamond 74.6 / 100
Coding Index 52.3 / 100
Intelligence Index 20.8 / 100
Humanity's Last Exam 11.4 / 100

Source: Artificial Analysis. Updated 2026-09-20.

Key strengths

  • — Strong reasoning at a better price
  • — Fast response times for production
  • — Reliable function calling and tool use
  • — Good multilingual performance

Best use cases

  • Production API workloads
  • Content generation at scale
  • Customer support automation
  • Code generation and review

Pricing details

Input (per 1M tokens)$2.50
Output (per 1M tokens)$15.00
Context window256K tokens
ArchitectureOptimized dense transformer, 256K context window, balanced for throughput and quality
Provider OpenAI

Balanced performance

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Pricing data is sourced from official API documentation and updated weekly. Actual costs may vary based on prompt caching, batch processing, service tiers, and regional pricing. Inblix is not affiliated with OpenAI.