GPT-5.6 Terra is OpenAI's language model with a 1.1M context window and up to 128K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $2.50 / 1M input and $15.00 / 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 days ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 5 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
Coding Index
GPQA
0.9
#7
HLE
0.4
#6
IFBench
0.7
#51
Time to First Token
SciCode
0.5
#10
LCR
0.7
#11
TerminalBench Hard
0.6
#6
TAU2
0.9
#82
Output TPS

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
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / request
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
gpt-5.6-terra
$2.50$15.00$0.25$3.13N/A$1.25$7.50$0.125
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
openai/gpt-5.6-terra
$2.50$15.00$0.25$3.13$0.010
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
openai/gpt-5.6-terra
$2.50$15.00$0.25$3.13N/A

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GPT-5.6 Terra1.1M$2.50$15.00Current
GPT-5.6 Sol1.1M$5.00$30.00Available
GPT-5.6 Luna1.1M$1.00$6.00Available
GPT-5.51.1M$5.00$30.00Available
GPT-5.4 Mini1.1M$0.750$4.50Available
GPT-5.4 Nano1.1M$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$14.00Available
GPT-5.2410K$1.75$14.00Available
GPT-5.1410K$1.25$10.00Available

Model IDs

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