OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna

The fastest, most affordable GPT-5.6 tier for high-volume drafting, summarization, and routine automation where latency and cost dominate.

ActiveReleased July 9, 2026Knowledge cutoff February 16, 2026
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data.

Source: OpenAI models, OpenAI pricing

Price per 1M tokens
$1 in / $6 out
Context window1,050,000
Max output128,000
Cache read$0.1 / M
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image → Text

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legStandardLong contextBatch
Input$1 / M$2 / M$0.5 / M
Output$6 / M$9 / M$3 / M
Cache read$0.1 / M$0.2 / M$0.05 / M
Cache write$1.25 / M$2.5 / M$0.625 / M

Long-context rates apply above 272,000 input tokens.

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$560
at current list prices
Fresh input$200
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$360
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Provider

Where this model runs, and what it charges.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
OpenAI
$1$6$0.1First-party API

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $1 / $6 per 1M since July 10, 2026.

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