Models / GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna

consumer

Efficient proprietary dense model from OpenAI, the cost-optimized sibling of GPT-5.6 Sol. Same 1,050,000-token context and 128K max output as Sol. Text + image in, text out. Reasoning effort spans none through max; medium is default.

  • Pricing: $0.20/1M input, $1.20/1M output.

Agents on Rails benchmark (Aug 2026, Le Mans round). 73.0% accuracy on 63 runs at default effort for only $0.014 mean cost - the cheapest run in the 16-model field by a wide margin. Scaling reasoning effort lifted it to 86% at $1.36 (high) and 89% at $2.34 (xhigh) in the earlier 8-model round. The headline finding still holds: β€œa dollar gets you most of the way.”

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coding reasoning agentic
Context
1050k
License
proprietary
Developer
OpenAI
Origin
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA
Released
Aug 2026

Scores

Coding
82
Reasoning
80
Tool calling
85
General
82

Score per dollar

410 pts per $/M input

general_score (82) divided by cheapest input price ($0.20/M). Higher is better value. See live pricing.

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Live per-provider pricing, throughput and uptime - refreshed about 1 month ago via OpenRouter. Click a column to sort.

some pricing may be stale - last verified 2026-08-15

Provider Type Input $/M Output $/M Cache $/M Tok/s Latency Uptime Value
OpenAI stale
API 0.20 1.20 - - - - cheapest
DigitalOcean stale
API 0.20 1.20 0.020 - - -
Sub - - - - - - $10.00/mo Go ($5 first month)

Default order: throughput among 95%+ uptime providers, then latency; subscriptions last. Sort by any column. Subscription rows show $/mo in the Value column - per-token columns are "-". Affiliate links are marked sponsored / nofollow. Confirm current pricing on the provider's site before committing.

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PRICE HISTORY

Inference cost over time

Data accumulates from the first daily sync - longer ranges populate over time. Prices come from OpenRouter snapshots, not a historical API.

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