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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.x79.03%independent
Terminal-Bench 2.1 79.03%, measured by Vals AI with the Terminus 2 harness (accessed 2026-09-23). Vals AI is the reference harness for this field so values compare across vendors; vendor and other third-party figures stay in the notes below. Replaces 84.3 (vendor).
Terminal-Bench 4.017.3%independent
Terminal-Bench 4.0 17.3% (± 2.8, 95% CI), official leaderboard maintained by the Terminal-Bench team (Stanford / Harbor / Laude Institute), max effort, agent harness: Codex (accessed 2026-09-23). 4.0 is its own generation and not comparable with the 2.x or 3.0 fields.
  • 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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