GPT-5.6 Luna
gpt-5.6-lunagpt-56-lunaopenai-gpt-56-luna- ⚡ Fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series
- 📏 Massive 1M-token context window
- 🧠 Capable reasoning for its price tier
- 👁️ Vision input plus function calling and web search
- 🎯 Built for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads
- 💬 Chat, classification, lightweight agentic tasks
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Explore 22 more models by OpenAI →GPT-5.6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series, released in July 2026. It targets high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads — interactive chat, text classification, and lightweight agentic pipelines — while still offering meaningful reasoning quality for its price bracket. A one-million-token context window lets it hold entire codebases, document sets, or long conversation histories in a single pass, and it supports vision input, function calling, and web search out of the box.
Within OpenAI's lineup, Luna sits at the efficiency end of the GPT-5.6 family, distinct from the heavier reasoning tiers represented by siblings like [[sibling:openai-gpt-56-terra|GPT-5.6 Terra]] and [[sibling:openai-gpt-56-sol|GPT-5.6 Sol]]. Each of these ships alongside a "Pro" counterpart, including [[sibling:openai-gpt-56-luna-pro|GPT-5.6 Luna Pro]], which trades some speed for additional headroom on harder tasks.
Choose Luna when throughput, responsiveness, and cost matter more than maximum depth — customer-facing assistants, batch classification, retrieval-augmented workflows over large contexts, and tool-driven agents that need to run frequently and cheaply.
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| Seller | Reputation↓ | Routing | Input $/M | Cached $/M | Output $/M | Categories | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice.ai Proxy 0x1f22…18c9 | 99 | #5 | $0.625 | $0.0625 | $3.75 | chat,reasoning,vision,multimodal,web-search | openai-chat-completions |
| CatGPT 0xb629…dab4 | 92 | #4 | $0.35 | $0.04 | $1.75 | chat,code,reasoning,multimodal | openai-responses |
| ▲ Apex Ant 0x73b4…e736 | 83 | #1 | $0.0089 | $0.0089 | $0.0178 | chat,writing,tasks,coding,creative,vision,multimodal,reasoning,long-context,agents | openai-chat-completions |
| Open Ant 0xe4f6…5bc4 | 74 | #3 | $0.1733 | $0.0173 | $1.04 | chat,reasoning,vision,multimodal,tools,long-context | openai-chat-completions |
| Open Bird 0xc0f1…8183 | 64 | #2 | $0.07 | $0.007 | $0.42 | chat,coding,reasoning | openai-chat-completions |
| NovaRoute AI 0xc50d…ed7b | 60 | gated | $0.0099 | $0.0099 | $0.0198 | chat,coding,code,reasoning,agent,tasks,frontier,value,gpt,surplus,openai-compatible,low-cost,verified,github,response-auth,base-usdc,monitored | openai-chat-completions |
| Super Seeder 0xd19f…41f3 | 40 | gated | $0.1333 | $0.0133 | $0.80 | chat,reasoning,vision,multimodal,tools,long-context,cheap | openai-chat-completions |
| Fire Ant 🔥🐜 0xbe05…bc5d | 37 | gated | $0.2364 | $0.024 | $1.44 | agent,base-usdc,chat,code,coding,frontier,github,gpt,low-cost,monitored,openai-compatible,reasoning,response-auth,surplus,tasks,value,verified | — |
| Xcat 0xbc33…b75f | 36 | gated | $0.20 | $0.05 | $1.50 | — | openai-chat-completions |
| D5V1N2 0xd5e7…7be0 | 26 | gated | $0.50 | $0.50 | $2.50 | chat,coding,reasoning,agent,fast,cheap,router,fallback | openai-chat-completions |
| api.contactboxtools.me 0x8144…6487 | 13 | gated | $0.04 | $0.005 | $0.15 | chat,fast,coding | openai-chat-completions |
| bartly.eth64.de 0x666e…4666 | 10 | gated | $0.20 | $0.04 | $1.50 | chat,coding,reasoning,vision,multimodal,web-search,function-calling | openai-chat-completions |
| antseed-opal-badger-2580 0xc85d…2580 | 1 | gated | $0.1333 | $0.1333 | $0.80 | chat | openai-chat-completions |
| Xerxes Inference 0xdc73…65ce | 1 | gated | $0.12 | $0.03 | $0.36 | chat,code,reasoning,multimodal,vision | openai-responses |
| Apex TEE Test 0xe672…7955 | 0 | gated | $0.24 | $0.036 | $1.44 | chat,writing,tasks,coding,creative,vision,multimodal,reasoning,long-context,agents | openai-chat-completions |
"Best price" and the seller table are live AntSeed catalog data (advertised $/1M tokens — or $ per generated image for unit-billed image models — not settled amounts). Reputation = on-chain trust (0-100). "Routing" = the SDK's default buyer routing (what the VPR desktop app ships with): a trust ≥ 60 gate on the effective reputation, then cheapest-first among routable sellers; live failover state (per-peer cooldowns) is buyer-side runtime and not included. Model knowledge (TLDR, provider, About) via the VeniceStats enrichment layer. Advertised catalog, not the model used in any specific purchase. "Usage on AntSeed" counts only settlements whose buyers share the per-model split on-chain (metadata v2/v3, opt-in), so every usage figure is a lower bound.