GPT-6 Luna
openai/gpt-6-luna- OpenAI
- Family · GPT-6 Luna
- Released 22 Sep 2026
- File · Image · Text → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · JSON · Vision
Spec & list price
Context1M
Max output128K
Input / 1M$0.10
Output / 1M$0.505× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence38.1#45/489
LiveBench64.6#17/32
Usage
Tokens / day814.7B▲ 13% 7d
Usage rank#5
Requests / day42.7M
Tool calls / req0.24
Per request · 30 days
Avg input17.4K1.2× median
Avg output5320.8× median
Cache hit79%1.1× median
Reasoning share56%about median
Tool-call failures0.5%0.3× median
Consumption
Peak 2.8T 29 OctLow 591.2B 27 SepRank today #5
News & trends
52 mentions this week ▲ 73%this model · videos, posts, articles · 30 days
Trending · 14 days
- GPT-6 Luna 回答變短,事實錯誤率卻升了?|AI 科技快報 10/29|CC字幕1.4K views
- OpenAI Decisions API 어디에 쓸까? gpt-6-luna로 활용처 TOP5 직접 돌려 봤다4.3K views
- Guys, they are switching GPT-6 Luna with GPT-5.6 Luna for free users (its a celebration if you understand)76 upvotes
- Inception is introducing Mercury 3, across a range of benchmarks, Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5, while running 4–8x faster at 1,000+ tokens per second.78 upvotes
- @cognition on X61.6K views
- @OpenRouter on X46.5K views
News · latest from OpenAI
- GPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper and faster in three tests at maxthenewstack.io · 2 Nov
- Chinese labs now target OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra for distillationfork.zone · 1 Nov
- GPT-6.1 Terrasimonwillison.net · 31 Oct
- GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful moderyanmadden.net · 31 Oct
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 7 providers, latest day
Output speed#140/33476 tok/s1.2× faster than median
Fastest provider120 tok/sbest of 7 providers
First token#2551.89 s1.8× longer than median
First answer token#9591 sthinking included
#4 cheapest of 16 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
LiveBench suites
Browser70.3
Coding84.5
Data Analysis73.4
Design82.5
Long Agentic30.9
Reasoning81.8
Research43.5
▲ Strongest: Coding, Design. ▼ Weakest: Long Agentic (31).
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · medium
- Tokenizer
- GPT
- Moderation
- moderated
Reasoning effort
- max
- xhigh
- high
- medium · default
- low
- none
Request parameters 11
- tools
- tool_choice
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- max_tokens
- max_completion_tokens
- seed
+1 more
- verbosity
Interesting facts
- Less output room than similar models (128.0K against a 734.0K median).
- Released 41 days ago.
When to use
Best for
- Cost-aware coding and design drafting
- Very long document question answering
- Reasoning with adjustable effort
- Image and file understanding in apps
- Fast tool-calling assistants
Think twice for
- Research-heavy deep dives
- Terminal-heavy autonomous agents
- Self-hosting (closed weights)
Research papers
- Decision and System One models in rheumatology: accuracy and calibration on specialty-training examination questions and diagnostic case vignettes29 Oct
- Sticky Collusion: Persistence of LLM Agent Collusion after Incentive Removal and Partner Replacement29 Oct
- ATLAS-Bench: An Agentic Tool-Use Benchmark for Local Area Search29 Oct
- Ask Before You Answer: A Question-Driven Evidence Reasoning Architecture (QERA) for In-Context Learning26 Oct
- Adaptive Retrieval, Selective Answers: Evaluating Conformal Factuality in Agentic RAG26 Oct
- Entity Matching using Decision Models25 Oct
- Do LLM-derived text features improve electricity price forecasts beyond document activity? Evidence from Australia's National Electricity Market23 Oct
- BrickWright: Agentic Creation of Physically Feasible Brick Builds22 Oct
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