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GPT-5.6 Terra

OpenAI model used as a throughput comparison point in Artificial Analysis's Gemini 3.7 Flash measurement.

Known aliases

  • GPT 5.6 Terra
  • gpt-5.6-terra
  • GPT Terra
  • in.openai.gpt-5.6-terra
  • openai.gpt-5.6-terra
  • Terra

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Copilot's model picker loses Opus 4.8, Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on Nov 16

GitHub will remove Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra from Copilot on November 16, according to its October 15 changelog. The vendors keep all three on their own APIs, so teams can call those directly or switch.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives30
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Agents on the Good team fall for coordinated deception in a Blood on the Clocktower benchmark

Bench on the Clocktower, a social-deduction benchmark run for 300 games per model, finds agents playing Good fall for coordinated deception by Evil agents. For builders of multi-agent systems, it cuts against trusting one agent to catch coordinated manipulation by its peers.

Publishers:lesswrong.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence35
securityOne report1 publisher

Sophos wants SOCs to test TypeSafe's Jev for accuracy and calibration before it closes alerts

Sophos cites an independent test putting TypeSafe's Jev at 83% on Banking77 with no training examples, 10 points behind a trained classifier. Jev costs about a twelfth as much per email as Claude Haiku 4.5, so SOCs will be tempted to automate at a volume where small error rates add up.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives40
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

OpenAI cuts the input price of its Luna model line by 90% in 54 days

OpenAI has cut input prices on its Luna models from $1.00 to $0.10 per million tokens since July 30, over two rounds of reductions. Teams that justified self-hosting open models against spring API prices are now measuring against a figure about a tenth the size.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives45
Confidence40
scienceConfirmed3 publishers

TypeSafe's first System One model emits typed probabilities in one parallel pass

TypeSafe's Jev returns typed probability fields in a single parallel pass and, the company says, runs two orders of magnitude faster than comparable LLMs. Its published benchmark scores agreement with two large models.

Publishers:kdnuggets.com orcarouter.ai typesafe.ai

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 54%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption15
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Default LLM calls pay list price for work that caching and batch would discount

A dev.to guide to GPT-5.6 pricing shows batch halving both token rates and a cheap-first cascade saving money until 9 in 10 calls escalate. Batch is opt-in and caching fails silently on short prefixes, so the default request often pays list price.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives75
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

Luna lands at one tenth of Terra's price on both input and output tokens

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cuts put Luna at $0.20 per million input tokens against Terra's $2, and the same factor of ten holds on output. Tier selection is now the largest single lever on a high-volume token bill.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption20
Hype gap+8
Incentives72
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

TypeSafe AI's Jev swaps LLM-judge text generation for typed answers against structured state

LangChain clocked TypeSafe AI's Jev at 0.44 seconds and $0.00035 per call against three LLM judges on the same eval set. Whether that price transfers depends on how much structure your traces already have.

Publishers:langchain.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption15
Hype gap+18
Incentives70
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Scattered pass rates across 93 versions break the cutoff-to-version shortcut

With documentation and web search removed, GPT-5.6 Luna passed 18% of 336 Dev Proxy tasks and 15% of 413 SPFx tasks, and the passes appear throughout both product histories instead of stopping at one release.

Publishers:devblogs.microsoft.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption18
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence55
leadershipOne report1 publisher

TypeSafe's own evals put Jev level with GPT-5.6 Terra at a 75th of the cost per decision

Jev returns typed answers with probability scores and no free-form text, and TypeSafe prices a decision at four hundredths of a cent. Its accuracy figures are scored against other models' probabilities.

Publishers:arize.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption22
Hype gap+30
Incentives68
Confidence44
productOne report1 publisher

Oracle answers its surprise AI bill by showing employees what each model costs

Oracle put ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI's Codex in front of about 160,000 employees in April, and 80 percent were using them within three months. Then the bills arrived and, the CIO said, surprised the company.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption68
Hype gap+15
Incentives68
Confidence46
buildOne report1 publisher

Markup filled 263,968 of a scraped product page's 267,361 tokens

Decodo's own runs on ten pages put raw HTML at 3 to 24 times the token count of the same pages as Markdown, with every model still answering correctly and the JSON-LD fields lost in the conversion.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives88
Confidence44
buildOne report1 publisher

Three judges score every answer in a RAG sweep, including one from the generator's own vendor

A dev.to write-up fixes retrieval at 200-word chunks and cosine top-5, then swaps three embedders and five generators across 100 questions and four topics to find out whether its own evaluation conclusions hold.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption15
Hype gap−12
Incentives35
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Ramp's heaviest AI spenders cut per-employee spend 9.7% to $7,205 in August

Ramp's September index has the top 1% of US AI buyers paying $7,205 a head. Its chief economist points to August vacations, cheaper tokens and a steady migration down from frontier models.

Publishers:the-decoder.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption66
Hype gap+10
Incentives58
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

One prompt turned 46 SWC issues into 45 parallel pull requests on one subsystem

SWC's creator fanned a single instruction out to 45 concurrent Labor0 tasks on the ES minifier, then kept review and merge for himself. He says he does not know how long the run took; he was looking at his phone.

Publishers:kdy1.dev

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption28
Hype gap+20
Incentives82
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

A 1.5x per-token price still bought a 25 percent cheaper correct answer in AWS's benchmark

AWS's open harness records $0.0021 per correct AIME answer for gpt-5.6-luna after an 80 percent Bedrock price cut. The figure depends on running luna with reasoning disabled while mini runs at its defaults.

Publishers:aws.amazon.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives80
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Retries inflated one agent turn to 47,004 input tokens for a 280-token answer

A hosted-skills agent that let the model call four tools in whatever order it liked pushed a single webshop question past the context window of a frontier model. The fix was to gather the evidence in code first.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives35
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Comu charges $180 for a microphone you can leave running on the boardroom table

A standalone AI recorder has to beat the free app on the phone it sticks to. 9to5Google's review of Comu's Action Pro shows that what the extra hardware buys you is where you are able to put it.

Publishers:9to5google.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption15
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence50

Earlier coverage

  1. Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Cheap Until January 1, When The Agent Bill Doubles

    Invest · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  2. Speed becomes a SKU: OpenAI and Google put a separate price on latency

    Invest · August 14, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers