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GPT-5.6 Luna

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Overview

Lightweight, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna family, aimed at smaller and faster tasks. Lowest-cost option in the family at $1/M input, $6/M output tokens. Part of the limited preview from 2026-06-26; generally available 2026-07-09.

Capabilities and innovations

Agentic codingTool use / function callingProgrammatic tool calling (Responses API)Sol / Terra / Luna model family

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
Terminal-Bench 2.x84.3%vendor
Terminal-Bench 2.1: 84.3% (OpenAI self-report, Luna tier; exceeds Terra despite the lower tier positioning).
  • GPQA Diamond: independent evaluation pending
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): independent evaluation pending
  • SWE-bench Pro: independent evaluation pending
  • MMLU-Pro: independent evaluation pending
  • Terminal-Bench 3.0: independent evaluation pending
  • MMMU-Pro: independent evaluation pending

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