GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra is an API-only (closed weights) language model from OpenAI, released July 9, 2026. The context window is 1.1M tokens. On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 160.7, rank 17 of 256 rated models. API price: $2 input / $12 output per million tokens.
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Lab
OpenAI
Released
July 9, 2026
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
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Context
1.1M
Price / M tokens
$2 / $12 in / out
Epoch ECI
160.7 #17
Strengths by category
ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.
| Category | Score | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 19.2 | Chess Puzzles, SimpleBench, Mystery Game Puzzles |
| Math | 71.4 | ProofBench, OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025, FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private, FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private |
| Coding | 60.2 | MirrorCode, DeepSWE |
| Knowledge | 75.2 | GPQA diamond, SimpleQA Verified |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 99.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 94.9% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3) | 90.5% |
| ProofBench | 74.0% |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | 70.7% |
| DeepSWE | 69.6% |
| Balrog | 53.2% |
| Chess Puzzles | 44.2% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 43.2% |
| MirrorCode | 41.1% |
| SimpleBench | 38.7% |
| Furniture Assembly | 34.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 28.4% |
Links
Announcement · Epoch AI benchmarks
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