GPT-5.6 Terra — AI Model Review & Pricing

by OpenAI Intelligent Coding Agentic Rank #13 of 120

GPT-5.6's balanced everyday tier — GPT-5.5-competitive performance at roughly 2x lower cost than the Sol flagship. A general-purpose workhorse for production agents and coding with a 1.05M-token context window.

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Specifications

Specifications for GPT-5.6 Terra
AttributeValue
Lab OpenAI
Tags Intelligent Coding Agentic
Release Date 2026-07
Context Window 1,050,000 tokens
Input Price / 1M $2.50
Output Price / 1M $15.00
Input Modalities Text
Output Modalities Text

Strengths

  • GPT-5.5-competitive quality at ~2x lower cost than Sol
  • 1.05M-token context at a mid-tier price
  • Strong general-purpose coding and agentic baseline
  • Replaces GPT-5.4 as the balanced default workhorse

Weaknesses

  • Trails Sol on frontier and agentic benchmarks
  • No Ultra multi-agent mode

Best For

  • Production agents and everyday coding
  • Cost-aware general-purpose use
  • Mid-volume API traffic

In Depth: GPT-5.6 Terra

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Summary

GPT-5.6 Terra is an AI model from OpenAI ranked #13 of 120 on the LMRank leaderboard.

Released 2026-07. It supports Text input and produces Text output, with a context window of 1,050,000 tokens. Input pricing is $2.50 per 1M tokens and output is $15.00 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.

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