GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6 Luna is a model from OpenAI, listed under Language models. It was released on Sep 22, 2026. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. It costs less than 93% of the 87 available models in its category. It accepts up to 1.05M tokens per request. Prices as of Oct 22, 2026, from the provider's official pricing page.
- Headline price
- $0.20 / 1M tokens
- Input
- $0.10 per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.50 per 1M tokens
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
- Max output
- 128k
- Knowledge cutoff
- May 2026
Overview
At $0.10 per million input tokens, Luna is the lowest-cost model in this catalogue from a major lab. Built for volume: classification, routing, tagging and extraction.
- Very high volume
- Classification
- Cost-critical pipelines
Current prices
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 / 1M tokens |
| Output | $0.50 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.01 / 1M tokens |
| Input Above 272k tokens | $0.20 / 1M tokens |
| Output Above 272k tokens | $0.75 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input Above 272k tokens | $0.02 / 1M tokens |
Checked against the provider page on Oct 22, 2026.
Price history
No price change recorded for this model yet.
How it compares
Show data
| Model | Value |
|---|---|
| GPT-5 nano | $0.1375 / 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | $0.1488 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.175 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4.1 nano | $0.175 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.20 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6 Luna Pro | $0.20 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4o Mini | $0.2625 / 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.3234 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | $0.45 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.4 nano | $0.4625 / 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.525 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.5625 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5 Mini | $0.6875 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | $0.70 / 1M tokens |
| Mistral Large 4 | $0.75 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo | $0.75 / 1M tokens |
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.775 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.85 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.85 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3 Flash | $1.13 / 1M tokens |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.25 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.56 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.20 Reasoning | $1.56 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning | $1.56 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | $1.56 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.4 Mini | $1.69 / 1M tokens |
| o3-mini | $1.93 / 1M tokens |
| o4-mini | $1.93 / 1M tokens |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.98 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6.1 Terra Pro | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.7 | $3.00 / 1M tokens |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $3.00 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.6 | $3.00 / 1M tokens |
| Grok 4.5 | $3.00 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini Omni Flash | $3.38 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5 | $3.44 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $3.44 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.1 | $3.44 / 1M tokens |
| o3 | $3.50 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4.1 | $3.50 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 4 Argon | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6 Sol | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6 Sol Pro | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6.1 Sol Pro | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4o | $4.38 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | $4.50 / 1M tokens |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $4.50 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.2 | $4.81 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.3-Codex | $4.81 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.4 | $5.63 / 1M tokens |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | $6.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $6.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $6.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $8.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | $8.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Opus 5 | $10.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $10.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $10.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $10.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $10.00 / 1M tokens |
| Chat Latest | $11.25 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.5 | $11.25 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4 Turbo | $15.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $20.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6 Astra | $20.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Mythos 5.1 | $20.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6 Astra Pro | $20.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Fable 5 | $20.00 / 1M tokens |
| Claude Mythos 5 | $20.00 / 1M tokens |
| o1 | $26.25 / 1M tokens |
| o3-pro | $35.00 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-4 | $37.50 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5 Pro | $41.25 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.2 Pro | $57.75 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.4 Pro | $67.50 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | $67.50 / 1M tokens |
| o1-pro | $263 / 1M tokens |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.20 / 1M tokens |
Show data
| Model | Value |
|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | 1.05M |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | 1.05M |
| GPT-6 Sol | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | 1.05M |
| GPT-6 Astra Pro | 1.05M |
| GPT-6 Luna Pro | 1.05M |
| GPT-6 Sol Pro | 1.05M |
| GPT-6.1 Sol Pro | 1.05M |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | 1.05M |
| GPT-6.1 Terra Pro | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.4 | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.4 Pro | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.5 | 1.05M |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | 1.05M |
| Gemini 4 Argon | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1.05M |
| Gemini Omni Flash | 1.05M |
| Muse Wonder | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | 1.05M |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 1.05M |
| Muse Spark 1.3 | 1.05M |
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | 1.05M |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | 1.05M |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | 1.05M |
| Gemini 3 Flash | 1.05M |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | 1.05M |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 1.05M |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 1.05M |
| Muse Spark 1.1 | 1.05M |
| Muse Spark 1.2 | 1.05M |
| GPT-4.1 | 1.05M |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | 1.05M |
| GPT-4.1 nano | 1.05M |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 1M |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | 1M |
| Grok 4.3 | 1M |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 1M |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 1M |
| Kimi K3 | 1M |
| Claude Mythos 5.1 | 1M |
| Grok 4.20 Reasoning | 1M |
| Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning | 1M |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | 1M |
| Z.ai GLM 5.3 (on Mistral) | 1M |
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1M |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | 1M |
| Mistral Large 4 | 1M |
| Claude Fable 5 | 1M |
| Claude Mythos 5 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 5 | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 1M |
| Grok 4.7 | 500k |
| Grok 4.6 | 500k |
| Grok 4.5 | 500k |
| GPT-5.6 Cyber | 400k |
| Chat Latest | 400k |
| GPT-5 | 400k |
| GPT-5 Mini | 400k |
| GPT-5 nano | 400k |
| GPT-5 Pro | 400k |
| GPT-5.2 | 400k |
| GPT-5.2 Pro | 400k |
| GPT-5.4 Mini | 400k |
| GPT-5-Codex | 400k |
| GPT-5.1 | 400k |
| GPT-5.1-Codex | 400k |
| GPT-5.1-Codex Mini | 400k |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Max | 400k |
| GPT-5.2-Codex | 400k |
| GPT-5.3-Codex | 400k |
| GPT-5.4 nano | 400k |
| Grok Build 0.1 | 256k |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | 256k |
| Mistral Small 4 | 256k |
| Ministral 3 14B | 256k |
| Ministral 3 8B | 256k |
| Ministral 3 3B | 256k |
| Command A | 256k |
| Command A Reasoning | 256k |
| North Mini Code | 256k |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | 256k |
| Mistral Large 3 | 256k |
| Kimi K2.6 | 256k |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | 200k |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 200k |
| o3 | 200k |
| o3-pro | 200k |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 200k |
| codex-mini-latest | 200k |
| o1 | 200k |
| o1-pro | 200k |
| o3-deep-research | 200k |
| o3-mini | 200k |
| o4-mini | 200k |
| o4-mini-deep-research | 200k |
| gpt-oss-120b | 131k |
| gpt-oss-20b | 131k |
| Command A+ | 128k |
| Codestral | 128k |
| Aya Expanse 32B | 128k |
| Command A Vision | 128k |
| Command R7B | 128k |
| Command R (08-2024) | 128k |
| Command R+ (08-2024) | 128k |
| ChatGPT-4o | 128k |
| GPT-4 Turbo | 128k |
| GPT-4 Turbo Preview | 128k |
| GPT-4.5 Preview | 128k |
| GPT-4o | 128k |
| GPT-4o Mini | 128k |
| GPT-4o Mini Search Preview | 128k |
| GPT-4o Search Preview | 128k |
| GPT-5 Chat | 128k |
| GPT-5.1 Chat | 128k |
| GPT-5.2 Chat | 128k |
| GPT-5.3 Chat | 128k |
| o1 Preview | 128k |
| o1-mini | 128k |
| Command R | 128k |
| Command R+ | 128k |
| Voxtral Small | 32k |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo | 16k |
| babbage-002 | 16k |
| davinci-002 | 16k |
| Aya Vision 32B | 16k |
| computer-use-preview | 8k |
| GPT-4 | 8k |
| Tiny Aya Earth | 8k |
| Tiny Aya Global | 8k |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1.05M |
Benchmarks
| Benchmarks | Score |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis's composite score across about ten independent evaluations (reasoning, knowledge, coding, agentic work, long context), run the same way for every model. The strongest models score in the 50s. | 38.1 |
| SciCode Writing code to solve research-level problems in physics, chemistry, biology and maths, checked by tests. | 54.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam About 2,500 expert-written questions at the frontier of human knowledge across maths, science and the humanities. Even the best models answer well under two thirds. | 38.5% |
| MMMU-Pro (visual reasoning) College-level questions that require reading charts, diagrams and figures, with distractors that defeat text-only guessing. | 79.7% |
| Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR) Questions that require reasoning across several long documents at once (around 100k tokens), not just finding one passage. | 83.3% |
Independent evaluations by Artificial Analysis, run the same way for every model, at the reasoning setting shown. Percentages unless marked as an index. Source
Alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI
|
$10.00 | $50.00 | 1.05M | Sep 3, 2026 | VisionReasoningTool calling | |
| 2 |
GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI
|
$2.00 | $10.00 | 1.05M | Sep 29, 2026 | VisionReasoningTool calling | |
| 3 |
GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI
|
$2.00 | $10.00 | 1.05M | Sep 22, 2026 | VisionReasoningTool calling | |
| 4 |
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
|
$4.00 | $20.00 | 1.05M | Jul 9, 2026 | VisionReasoningTool calling | |
| 5 |
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI
|
$2.00 | $12.00 | 1.05M | Jul 9, 2026 | VisionReasoningTool calling | |
| 6 |
GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI
|
$0.20 | $1.20 | 1.05M | Jul 9, 2026 | VisionReasoningTool calling |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does GPT-6 Luna cost?
GPT-6 Luna is priced at input $0.10 / 1M tokens, output $0.50 / 1M tokens, cached input $0.01 / 1M tokens, according to OpenAI's published pricing (checked Oct 22, 2026).
What is the context window of GPT-6 Luna?
GPT-6 Luna accepts up to 1.05M tokens per request. It can write up to 128k tokens in one response.
Is GPT-6 Luna still available?
Yes. GPT-6 Luna is generally available through the OpenAI API.
When was GPT-6 Luna released?
GPT-6 Luna was released in Sep 22, 2026.
What is the API model ID for GPT-6 Luna?
Use gpt-6-luna when calling the OpenAI API.
What are the alternatives to GPT-6 Luna?
Models in the same category at a similar price include Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek), GPT-6 Luna Pro (OpenAI) and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (DeepSeek).