GPT-5.6 Terra is OpenAI's language model with a 1.1M context window and up to 128K output tokens, available from 6 providers, starting at $2.00 / 1M input and $12.00 / 1M output. A balanced intelligence-and-cost LLM in the GPT-5.6 family, corresponding to the mini tier of earlier GPT-5 families.
Specifications
Canonical IDopenai-gpt-5-6-terra
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Context Window1.1M tokens
Max Output128K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefaultnonexhigh
Release Date · 2 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 7 months ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#11
Coding Index
#4
GPQA
#15
HLE
#14
IFBench
#56
Time to First Token
#349
SciCode
#17
LCR
#8
TerminalBench Hard
#3
TAU2
#91
Output TPS
#91

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities7/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardFlexFastLong contextBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / request
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$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / request
Amazon Bedrock logo
Amazon Bedrock
bedrock_mantle/openai.gpt-5.6-terra
$2.20$13.20$0.22$2.75N/A
Amazon Bedrock logo
Amazon Bedrock
global.openai.gpt-5.6-terra
$2.00$12.00$0.2$2.50N/A
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
azure/eu/gpt-5.6-terra
$2.20$13.20$0.22N/AN/A$5.50$33.00$0.55N/A
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
azure/gpt-5.6-terra
$2.00$12.00$0.2N/AN/A$4.00$24.00$0.4N/A
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
gpt-5.6-terra
$2.00$12.00$0.2$2.50N/A$1.00$6.00$0.1$1.25$4.00$24.00$0.4$5.00$1.00$6.00$0.1N/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
openai/gpt-5.6-terra
$2.00$12.00$0.2$2.50$0.010N/AN/AN/AN/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
openai/gpt-5.6-terra:batch
$1.00$6.00$0.1$0.010
Snowflake logo
Snowflake
openai-gpt-5.6-terra
$2.40$14.40N/AN/AN/A$4.80$21.60$1.20$7.20N/AN/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
openai/gpt-5.6-terra
$2.00$12.00$0.2$2.50N/A$1.00$6.00$0.1N/A$4.00$24.00$0.4N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
openai/gpt-5.6-terra-fast
$8.00$36.00$0.8N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A$2.50

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GPT-5.6 Terra1.1M$2.00$12.00Current
GPT-5.6 Sol1.1M$2.00$10.00Available
GPT-5.6 Luna1.1M$0.200$1.20Available
GPT-5.51.1M$5.00$30.00Available
GPT-5.4 Mini400K$0.750$4.50Available
GPT-5.4 Nano400K$0.200$1.25Available
GPT-5.41.1M$2.50$15.00Available
GPT-5.3 Codex400K$1.75$14.00Available
GPT-5.2 Codex400K$1.75$14.00Deprecated
GPT-5.2410K$1.75$14.00Available
GPT-5.1410K$1.25$10.00Available

Model IDs

azure/eu/gpt-5.6-terra
azure/gpt-5.6-terra
azure/us/gpt-5.6-terra
bedrock_mantle/openai.gpt-5.6-terra
global.openai.gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5-6-terra
gpt-5-6-terra-high
gpt-5-6-terra-low
gpt-5-6-terra-medium
gpt-5-6-terra-non-reasoning
gpt-5-6-terra-xhigh
gpt-5.6-terra
openai-gpt-5-6-terra
openai.gpt-5.6-terra
openai/gpt-5.6-terra
openai/gpt-5.6-terra-fast
openai/gpt-5.6-terra:batch
us.openai.gpt-5.6-terra