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GPT-5.6 Luna: price, performance and context

Proprietary GPT-5.6 Luna by OpenAI costs $0.20 per 1M input and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1.1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,200 pages of text) and scores 37.3 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 34 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:46 UTC · openai/gpt-5.6-luna

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$0.20
Output / 1M tokens
$1.20
Context window
1.1M tokens
Max. output
128K tokens
Performance index
37.3 points · rank 34 of 212
Coding index
71.4 points · rank 22 of 119
Agentic index
42.1 points · rank 18 of 91
Cost at your usage
$0.50 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Feb 2026
In the catalog since
Jul 09, 2026
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00115,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00119,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0017,900
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0024,300
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.022450

Cheaper with similar performance

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAIProprietary41.1$0.00
MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiOpen37.9$0.21
Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicProprietary43.4$0.225

Stronger models

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiOpen37.9$0.21
GPT-6 LunaOpenAIProprietary38.1$0.225
Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicProprietary38.2$4.50

Open alternatives

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen46.3$0.653
GLM 5.3Z.aiOpen44.8$1.79
Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen43.6$4.195